Professor: Bosnia's failure to manage migrant crisis produced security problems

The fall of 2018 brought Bosnia a number of problems which the country was not prepared for “neither as a community nor institutionally,” the professor said.
He explained that about 60,000 people passed through Bosnia and Herzegovina on their way to Western Europe.
Bosnia has specific decision-making processes and mechanisms and the country failed to properly manage the migrant crisis and this is producing consequences, he said.

“The consequences are attacks on citizens. We are lacking the facts of the real situation in this regard,” he said, classifying the security problems related to the migrant crisis into two major categories.

“The most common ones were related to conflicts within the migrant population, as they have clashes among each other throughout their journey,” he said, adding that there are members of various smuggling groups among the migrants. People who have reached Western European countries pay those groups to smuggle in their family members, he explained.

“The second level is the misdemeanour crimes committed in countries of transit, mostly property crimes, and violent crimes which garner the most public attention,” he said, mentioning the murder of a local in Sarajevo allegedly committed by migrants in November.