The city government reported that accordingly, Mayor Behman sent a letter to the municipal court president, Goran Salihovic, asking him "to take steps with the aim of postponing the eviction".
Recently, the court has ruled that the flat, situated within the Archbishop's Residence, should be given to the family of Fadil Smajlovic, on the grounds of the tenancy rights Smajlovic was awarded by the Communist government before the war in the 1990s. The Communists expropriated this part of the Archbishop's Residence and the flat was used by the Communist intelligence for monitoring the communication in the rest of the residence.
The mayor said the authorities in the city and in the canton were willing to provide housing to the Smajlovic family at another place, but that such developments should wait for the inauguration of the new local executive authorities following the 3 October general elections. All this can last until mid-December, according to Behman.
"Bearing in mind the significance and role of religious communities and respecting the value of the multiethnic and multiconfessional life in Sarajevo and in Bosnia and Herzegovina, I'm hopeful that this request will be granted and that eviction will be postponed until the second half of December," Behman said in his request to the court's president.
He undertook to solve this problem to the pleasure of all parties concerned.