A terrorist gets out of prison and goes to Serbia?

Convicted terrorist Mevlid Jašarević (38) will serve his sentence of 15 years at the end of October, although it is not yet clear whether he will then leave the prison in Vojkovićivme near Sarajevo as a free man.

If he leaves, nothing will prevent him from returning to Serbia because Jašarevic himself claims that he has only Serbian citizenship, and at one time he even begged the president Aleksandar Vučić to serve his sentence in Serbia.

Threatened with a new punishment?

According to Nezavisne novine, Jašarević's prison term expires on October 27. But the prosecution there is asking for so-called "prohibitive measures" since Jašarević is apparently awaiting a new trial in BiH due to alleged threats to the prison staff.

Prohibition measures are determined in order to ensure that the accused appears before the court - for example, a ban on leaving Bosnia and Herzegovina.

In the current indictment, it is stated that he verbally attacked the teachers in the prison, threatened and insulted them at the end of 2024, which Jašarević denies. For that crime, he was threatened with imprisonment from three months to three years.

Wrote to Vučić

In 2022, Jašarević claimed that he did not have BiH citizenship at all. "I was born in Novi Pazar, I only have Serbian citizenship, I don't have any other," he told Nezavisne Novine at the time.

However, Serbian authorities previously rejected Jašarević's request that he serve the remainder of his sentence in Serbia. "I sent an appeal against that decision, and I also sent a letter to Aleksandar Vučić. I asked him to help me," said Jašarević at the time.

Although the authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina deny that Jašarević is not their citizen, the warden of the strict prison where he is held says that, when the prison sentence expires, he will inform the Service for Affairs with Foreigners.

"It is our duty to inform them that he is getting out of prison, and to let him at the gate. Whether they will wait for him, drive him to Serbia, or let him walk freely is not up to us," said manager Siniša Perković.

Attacked the American embassy.

Jašarević became known as a militant Wahhabi when he attacked the American embassy in Sarajevo in October 2011.

That day, he fired 105 bullets and seriously wounded a policeman in both legs. The attacker was first shot by a sniper, and then arrested. He will serve a full fifteen years.

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