2024-10-03 11:34:50
Bosnia’s Defense Minister Zukan Helez said today that the security situation in the country is stable and citizens have nothing to fear after the security level has been increased after threats of terrorist attacks against military and military-industrial facilities were reported. the Bosnian newsroom of TV En1.
The Bosnian publication “Dnevni Avaz” wrote today that the threat came from an email with a Bulgarian domain.
Helez declined to comment on this information.
I would not like to speculate. I would not like to make the information I have public. Citizens are safe and there is no danger to the state and its citizens, Zukan Helez told En1.
He emphasized that the situation is not dangerous at the moment, and based on information, the degree of combat readiness has been increased.
“We don’t want citizens to feel panic and fear, but we also don’t want there to be confusion,” Hélez told us.
The spokeswoman for the State Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA), Jelena Miovcic, told the FENA news agency that yesterday a signal was received about a possible bomb threat at facilities of the armed forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
We are taking measures and actions related to the implementation of inspections, as well as to establish the IP address from which these threats were sent, she pointed out.
Over the past week, Bosnia has received a number of reports of bomb threats at malls, schools, the airport and the presidency.
On October 6, local elections will be held in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Bosnia has one of the most complex state apparatuses in the world. The Dayton Peace Accords, which ended the war in Bosnia in 1995, divided Bosnia into two semi-autonomous parts – the Republika Srpska and the Muslim-Croat Federation. Each part has its own government, parliament and police, but the two parts are connected through common state-level institutions, including the judiciary, army, security services and tax administration, writes BTA.