Some 270 migrants who set off from Sarajevo to Mostar have arrived at the ‘Salakovac’ asylum centre on Friday, after 8 hours.

On Friday morning, a group of some 270 migrants who resided in and around a park in the centre of Sarajevo for the past month had boarded five buses and set off to the Mostar asylum centre ‘Salakovac.’ Their removal from a tent-settlement which they had set up, into the asylum centre was organised and coordinated by the Bosnian Council of Ministers and the State Security Ministry, in order to provide them with humane living conditions.  

However, at the very entrance of the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton, this Canton’s police units had stopped the convoy and prevented them from going any further into the territory of the Canton. This sparked fierce reactions from the Bosnian and authorities and officials who called the event a coup and an attack against the constitutional order of Bosnia and Herzegovina by a lower level of government.  

Bosnia’s Security Ministry informed the State Prosecution of the event and requested the arrest of the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton’s police commissioner who ordered the operation.  

After waiting for several hours and just in time as panic began to set in among the migrants, their passage has finally been approved and the convoy started moving towards the destination.  

According to N1’s Djenana Kmanic, the migrants started arriving in Salakovac.