The 52-year-old police officer was attacked with a knife last Thursday inside the police station of Bosanska Krupa, a quiet community of 11,000 people.
OR anti-terrorist prosecution Bosnia’s government announced today that it is investigating the involvement of “radical religious organizations” in the recent killing of a police officer by a 14-year-old boy who allegedly attended a “Koran school”.
THE 52-year-old police officers was attacked with a knife last Thursday inside the police station of Bosanska Krupa, a quiet community of 11,000 residents 300 kilometers northwest of Sarajevo.
The attacker is a high school student who, according to local media, frequented an unofficial “Koran school” run by members of an Islamist movement. The teenager injured a second police officer before he was arrested. He has been remanded in custody for 30 days.
The anti-terrorist prosecutor’s investigation focuses on “non-institutional, radical religious associations, which are suspected of being linked to this terrorist act.”
According to him BIRN BiH journalistic websitewhich specializes in legal matters, a State Court judge ordered an investigation into five suspects. Three of them have been placed under house arrest and the other two have been banned from leaving Bosanska Krupa. These persons are believed to be connected to the “proselytization” of the minor who committed the terrorist act.
As part of an investigation carried out last Friday in Bosanska Krupa and the neighboring town of Bihac, the police arrested eight suspects but three of them were released. Weapons, ammunition, mobile phones, computers, hard drives, cash and documents with texts written in Arabic were also seized.
Prosecutor Merima Mesanovic said the 14-year-old’s act was a terrorist act because his motive was to attack a police station to intimidate the population.
According to local media, all the suspects are “members or teachers” at Bosanska Krupa’s “Koran school”. One of them is a civil servant in the police station where the crime was committed.
About half of the 3.5 million inhabitants of Bosnia are Muslims. The rest are Orthodox or Catholic Christians. Although most Bosnians practice their religious duties with moderation and tolerance, some believers have joined movements promoting radical Islam. Around 250-300 Bosnians left between 2012-16 for Syria and Iraq to join the Islamic State. 25% of them were women and 20% children, according to the country’s authorities.
Source :Skai
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