Along the old front line, the Bulevar, an elegant, freshly renovated ocher building rises in a late 19th century neo-Moorish style: it is one of Mostar's high schools.
The ground floor accommodates students following the Croatian curriculum, while the first floor is reserved for Bosnian classes.
The students have no common lessons, but it is the only school in the city where, thanks to an initiative of the OSCE, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the teaching is, at least , dispensed “
under the same roof
”.
To the west of this invisible border that has become the Bulevar, teaching is done according to the Croatian curriculum, and to the east, according to Bosnian.
Nearly thirty years after the end of the conflict, Mostar, renowned in the days of Yugoslavia for its relaxed lifestyle and cosmopolitanism, remains a divided city.
In the spring of 1992, the Serbian armed forces and militias opposed the Croatian forces and those loyal to the power of Sarajevo.
Then…
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