High Representative Valentin Inzko has received death threats written on postcards that were distributed to the public by the party of Milorad Dodik, the envoy’s office said on Friday.
Dodik’s SNSD party distributed 10,000 postcards to the public ahead of the Jan. 9 anniversary of the Serb Republic’s founding.
The postcards carried caricatures of Inzko and foreign judges of Bosnia’s constitutional court, which had declared the Jan. 9 holiday discriminatory. The public was invited to write messages on the postcards and send them to Inzko.
Dodik has long called for the departure of the HR and other international officials.
Inzko’s office said many of those who sent the postcards had simply expressed their political views, but that some contained offensive language, even death threats. Officials at the SNSD headquarters in Banja Luka could not immediately be reached for comment.
“It should be noted that making death threats is a criminal offence and the cards in question will be handed over to the competent authorities,” Inzko’s office said in a statement.