According to local media reports, a group of people believed to be members of the Jewish extremist group Lev Tahor are allegedly staying in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Reports say that the group is currently staying in Istocno Sarajevo and the Service for Foreigners said no incidents of any kind have been recorded.

“Our officers carried out field inspections twice. They did not commit a single offence. We checked to see if they had done anything. Nothing was reported specifically, except that people are disturbed by their appearance, so we did not take action,” said the head of the service, Slobodan Ujic.

Ujic explained that the group consists of US and Canadian citizens and that they rented accommodation in the settlement of Kula, as well as that their residence contract expires at the beginning of February.

According to local media reports, the group is staying on the property of an MP in the National Assembly of Bosnia’s Republika Srpska (RS) entity, Savo Vulic.

Jerusalem Post writes that the sect, known by many as the ‘Jewish Taliban’, is an “extremist branch of ultra-Orthodox Judaism that has engaged in many controversial practices. Its members are forced to live highly regimented and isolated lives away from secular society, sometimes without access to modern medicine and healthcare.”