The mayor of the municipality of Jablanica, Damir Sabanovic, filed a criminal complaint against the Serb member of Bosnia’s tripartite Presidency, Milorad Dodik, for obstructing the decision-making process that would enable helicopters of the BiH Armed Forces to be used to extinguish the wildfire in that municipality.
The wildfire near Jablanica, south of Sarajevo, which has been active for days is spreading at dramatic speed and is now threatening the location that is home to the largest number of endemic species in Bosnia and Herzegovina, environmental activists have warned.
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Sabanovic’s move came after Dodik refused to give consent for the engagement of helicopters of the Armed Forces of BiH. According to the Law on Defense, all three Presidency members must agree in order to engage BiH military resources.
“We have declared a state of natural disaster. There are no answers to our appeals regarding the possibility of helicopter engagement, and according to the Criminal Code of BiH, criminal charges have been filed against a member of the Presidency of BiH,” Sabanovic confirmed for N1.
“It is, above all, the property of the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Forests are state property,” he said, arguing that “if the helicopters of the Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina are ready to put out fires in BiH, and someone does not want to participate in the work of the institutions of Bosnia and Herzegovina, I think we have no other option.”
Satellite images released Friday morning by the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS) show the locations on the Cvrsnica Mountain just above Jablanica that were affected by wildfires and spreading towards the endemic site Plasa.
“If helicopters do not start putting the fire out as soon as this morning, Plasa – the location with the largest number of endemic species in Bosnia and Herzegovina, will burn down,” warned the activists of NGO ‘Eko Akcija’.
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