Head of the Delegation of the European Union to Bosnia and Herzegovina Lars-Gunnar Wigemark on Thursday said that statements about the danger of people returning to Bosnia and Herzegovina from the war front in Syria and Iraq were often exaggerated, underscoring that there were many more in his hometown in Sweden than in all of Bosnia.

There is publicly available information but also intelligence on their number. I can say as an example that there are more fighters on foreign war fronts from my home town (Gothenburg) in Sweden than those coming from all of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Wigemark told reporters in Banja Luka.

The Swedish diplomat underscored that terrorism is threatening everyone and that the European continent has to face this as a whole.

We saw that in the attacks in Paris and Brussels. What has been happening in Bosnia and Herzegovina are isolated cases however, regardless of that, that has to be handled as a common problem, Wigemark said.

Pointing the finger at just some countries in the European family doesn't help in dealing with the problem of terrorism, he added.

Last week Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic said that it was necessary to face the fact that thousands of fighters were returning from Islamic State to Bosnia and Herzegovina, which led to harsh criticism from Bosnian officials.

Wigemark said that what is happening in Syria today is sad and that it is a repeat of what occurred in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1990s.

We are talking about genocide, he said.