Retired police officer and former leader of the team of investigators wit the Sarajevo Security Service Centre, Dragan Miokovic, assessed that the bomb attack on the house of the head of the Sarajevo Stari Grad Municipality on Monday morning was a “classic mafia move.”

Speaking to N1, Miokovic said he did not want to prejudge anything in terms of motives of the attack but that “everything indicates it was a classic move of a group that assessed that enormously high profits are slipping out of their hands.”

“Go for a head of an administrative unit in the way they did it, by activating a hand bomb on the house where children live too, shows how far that group is ready to go,” stressed Miokovic.

Sarajevo: Politician's house targeted by bomb attack

Unknown perpetrators attacked the house of the head of the Sarajevo Stari Grad Municipality Irfan Cengic on Monday early morning, causing material damage but leaving no injured persons.

According to Miokovic, the former police officer, it would be naïve to think that perpetrators are those seeking their interest in this incident, adding that those people usually hire people to do it for them.

“I hate to exert public pressure on institutions, but based on my own experience, this event significantly exceeds the category of causing the general hazard. This is organised by mafia. There is no serious crime without link with politics. This case must not remain unsolved,” he stressed, adding he was glad that Cengic was granted police protection.

Finding the perpetrators and those who ordered the crime, Miokovic said, would send a message to the others – all criminals must know “there is only one sheriff in the city.”

He also commented on the recent shootings in the city, noting that all perpetrators except one have been arrested and that the police actions are giving back the trust in their work.

Commenting on the recent case of a kidnapped girl in Serbia, which echoed throughout the region, Miokovic said that the Amber Alert, a mechanism that distributes message to the public for help in finding abducted children, is likely to start operating in Bosnia and Herzegovina soon.

“I am convinced it will pass the state parliament soon. Entire Europe is using 122 number as alert number, but in BiH is being obstructed solely for political reasons,” said Miokovic, however, adding that he is hopeful the number will be operational in the country soon.