The same people who decided that a Russian writer should be banned from entering Bosnia because he is posing a security threat are the ones practicing humanity on migrants of from the Middle East who are changing European blood, film director Emir Kusturica said on Saturday.

Kusturica was commenting on the ban of Yevgeny Nikolayevich Prilepin, better known as Zakhar Prilepin, who was on Thursday barred from entering Bosnia where he was supposed to attend an event in Banja Luka the next day.

He was turned away by Bosnia’s border with the explanation that he poses a security threat.  

Prilepin fought on the Russian side during the war in Ukraine. He also took part in the conflict in Chechnya in the 1990’s.  

Kusturica, who is close to pro-Russian Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik, ranted about the ban, calling officials from Bosnia’s intelligence service who made such an assessment “illiterate peasants who have always hated culture, most of all Russian culture-.” he said.  

“They are afraid that Zakhar could disturb the ‘generally stable situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina’,” Kusturica said cynically.  

He then referred to the current migrant crisis Bosnia is wrestling with.  

“Since migrants are bleating at their doorstep, they were tasked by the same people who banned Prilepin to practice their homework in humanity on the poor refugees” as well as to implement an alleged plan by George Soros to “renew Europe’s blood,” he said.  

He referred to a right-wing conspiracy theory that claims philanthropist and billionaire George Soros is helping migrants invade Europe.