[RFE/RL] A Bosnian anti-terror prosecutor said the arrests of 11 suspected Islamist extremists last week have prevented an attack that could have killed around 100 people in Sarajevo.Bosnian state television quoted prosecutor Dubravko Campara as saying that the group was plotting "a terrorist act during end-of-year celebrations." Campara added "they were threatening to carry out an explosives attack in which 100 people would be killed."
The suspects were arrested on December 22 in raids carried out in several parts of Sarajevo. After the arrests, prosecutors released a photograph taken at the site showing a printout of the Daesh flag on the wall of a rented house in a suburb of the Bosnian capital where the suspects purportedly gathered for worship.
Last year Bosnia adopted a new law providing for jail sentences of up to 20 years for Islamist extremists and their associates.