The Milan public prosecutor’s office has launched an inquiry into allegations that Italian nationals went on “sniper safaris” to Bosnia-Herzegovina during the early 1990s conflict. In the besieged city of Sarajevo, it is claimed that Italians and others paid high prices to shoot at civilians. Journalist and novelist Ezio Gavazzeni submitted the Milan lawsuit, detailing a “manhunt” by “very wealthy people” who were passionate about guns and “paid to be able to kill defenceless civilians” from Serb strongholds in the hills surrounding Sarajevo.
Some sources claim that different fees were levied for killing males, women, or children. The terrible four-year siege of Sarejevo claimed the lives of almost 11,000 people. War tore Yugoslavia apart, and the city was under regular shelling and sniper fire while encircled by Serb forces. Although similar accusations regarding foreign “human hunters” have been made on multiple occasions over the years, Italian counterterrorism prosecutor Alessandro Gobbis is currently reviewing the evidence acquired by Gavazzeni, which includes the testimony of a Bosnian military intelligence official. Murder is the charge.
According to the Bosnian officer, his Bosnian colleagues learned about the alleged safaris in late 1993 and informed Italy’s Sismi military intelligence in early 1994. A few months later, he said, Sismi responded. They learned that “safari” tourists would fly to the slopes above Sarajevo from the northern Italian border city of Trieste.
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