High Representative condemns bomb attacks in Vitez and Novi Travnik

The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, is appalled and condemns in the strongest possible manner today’s bomb attack against the offices of the Social-Democratic Party in Vitez and the New Croat Initiative in Novi Travnik. It was already the second attack on the premises of the SDP in Vitez during the last three weeks. Again, fortunately nobody was injured. These terrorist attacks, carried out against two of the leading parties in the country, suggest that there are extremists at work who do not scare away from by using violence and other undemocratic means in order to threaten the citizens of this country.

The High Representative expressed his confidence that the law enforcement agencies and legal institutions of the country will ensure an extensive and in-depth investigation and treat this problem with the seriousness it deserves.