**Bosnian police have launched a massive operation against a conservative Muslim community, to prevent what they called attempts to destabilise the country.**Hundreds of police officers raided the mountain village of Gornja Maoca in northern Bosnia.
The village is home to Bosnian followers of Wahhabism, a strictly observant form of Islam.
Some 600 officers surrounded the village before raiding it on Monday morning, the spokesman added.
It was the biggest police operation in Bosnia since its 1992-1995 war, said the state prosecutor’s office.
Security forces closed off the isolated northern village, which is near the northern city of Brcko and has around 100 residents, while the raid was in progress.
“The goal of this operation… is to identify people accused of endangering the territorial integrity of Bosnia-Hercegovina, threatening the constitutional order and promoting national, racial and religious hatred,” Boris Grubesic, the prosecutor’s spokesman, told AFP news agency.
It was not clear if any arrests had been made.