Seven Wahhabis, one foreigner arrested

Seven people, including one foreign citizen, were arrested in a major police raiddubbed Operation Light, in the village of Gornja Maoca, near Brcko, in Bosnia. “The arrested Bosnian citizens will be turned over to the judicial bodies, while the foreign citizen will be handed over to the Service for Foreigners' Affairs,” the Prosecution of Bosnia-Herzegovina spokesman Boris Grubesic told Tanjug on Tuesday. Seven Wahhabis, one foreigner arrested He also said “cold weapons and firearms, video and audio recordings, computer equipment and communication devices” were all confiscated in the raid. Federal Police Chief Zlatko Miletic assessed that the raid in Gornja Maoca, which involved 380 members of special police units from all over Bosnia, was successful. Miletic said that those detained will be interrogated in police custody and then sent to the Federal Police Administration in Sarajevo, where they will be turned over to the State Prosecution. Tuesday's raid was one of the biggest conducted in Bosnia since 1996 and it involved members of all police agencies and services. The operation targeted persons suspected of endangering the territorial integrity of Bosnia, violating the Constitution and inciting ethnic, racial and religious hatred, discord and intolerance. Gornja Maoca is an isolated village, populated by members of the radical Islamist Wahhabi movement, who adhere to Sharia law, where Bosnian state laws did not apply. Gornja Maoca yesterday (Beta)

Seven Wahhabis, one foreigner arrested

He also said “cold weapons and firearms, video and audio recordings, computer equipment and communication devices” were all confiscated in the raid.

Federal Police Chief Zlatko Miletić assessed that the raid in Gornja Maoča, which involved 380 members of special police units from all over Bosnia, was successful.

Miletić said that those detained will be interrogated in police custody and then sent to the Federal Police Administration in Sarajevo, where they will be turned over to the State Prosecution.

Tuesday's raid was one of the biggest conducted in Bosnia since 1996 and it involved members of all police agencies and services.

The operation targeted persons suspected of endangering the territorial integrity of Bosnia, violating the Constitution and inciting ethnic, racial and religious hatred, discord and intolerance.

Gornja Maoča is an isolated village, populated by members of the radical Islamist Wahhabi movement, who adhere to Sharia law, where Bosnian state laws did not apply.