US EditionItaly probes suspect in Sarajevo ‘sniper tourism’ during Bosnia war: Report
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An elderly Italian man is under investigation as part of an investigation by prosecutors in Milan into individuals who allegedly paid members of the Bosnian Serb army to travel to Sarajevo so they could kill civilians during the four-year siege of the city in the 1990s. The 80-year-old is being investigated on charges of aggravated murder, a source close to the case told the Guardian. The man, a former truck driver from the northern Italian regi…
Milan's public prosecutor's office has arrested an 80-year-old man for his possible involvement in an investigation into "sniper safaris" during the Yugoslav war. The investigation was launched last year when it became clear that tourists were paying large sums of up to €100,000 to shoot civilians.
During so-called sniper safaris, foreigners could pay large sums of money to shoot at civilians in Sarajevo from Bosnian Serb positions.
The investigated is an 80-year-old retired truck driver who will not be the only one cited, according to the writer who revealed the facts
The first suspect of participating in the human safaris of Sarajevo will be interrogated by the Prosecutor’s Office of Milan next Monday. The Prosecutor’s Office of the Lombard capital has been investigating for months the participation of citizens of various European countries in hunts organized in the capital of Bosnia against civilians during the Balkan War. These events continued between 1992 and 1996. Continue reading...
The investigation of human safari during the war in Yugoslavia: between 1992 and 1995, some individuals would have had fun doing snipers shooting also on women, elderly and children in the Serbian-Bosniac stations
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