Were Belgians Involved in 'Sniper Safaris' in Sarajevo? "Prosecutors Can Launch Investigation"

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On the occasion of his press review on Monday morning, Paul Arcand discusses the Italian survey of a safari in Sarajevo where tourists reportedly paid up to 100,000 euros to kill civilians during the Bosnian war in the 1990s.

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The Belgian public prosecutor's office may also launch an investigation into the "sniper safaris" during the Sarajevo war in the 1990s. The statute of limitations may not yet have expired, according to Chris Van den Wyngaert, a former judge at the International Criminal Court and the Yugoslavia Tribunal.

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Many foreigners are suspected of having paid for shooting besieged civilians in Sarajevo, Bosnia, in the 1990s. Italian justice has opened an investigation.

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Incomprehensible and inhumane: Milan prosecutors have opened an investigation into alleged “human safaris” during the siege of Sarajevo. Journalist and novelist Ezio Gavazzeni and two lawyers have filed a complaint alleging that wealthy Italians and other tourists allegedly paid large sums of money to members of the Bosnian Serb army to hunt down the city’s residents and defenseless civilians during the four-year siege of Sarajevo. More than 11,…

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Four days after completing a year of life in 1993, the little Irina Cisic was taken by parents for a walk in the ruined streets of Sarajevo, then near the Serbian forces of Bosnia. The family tried, as it could, to maintain some normality in the middle of the war. But, wrapped in the mother's arms, Irina was hit by a fire of a franco-attacher. She died several hours later in the hospital. She was one of the 11,541 victims, including 1,601 childr…