US EditionWar Tourists: Italy Probes Claims that Foreigners Paid to Go to Sarajevo to Kill Civilians
Italian prosecutors investigate claims that wealthy foreigners paid up to €70,000 to shoot civilians during Sarajevo's siege, which killed up to 11,000 people, officials said.
- Journalist Ezio Gavazzeni has brought the allegations to Milanese public prosecutors this week that rich Italians and other Western nationals paid to shoot civilians in Sarajevo during the siege, in what prosecutors call a human safari.
- The siege of Sarajevo set the scene for the alleged shootings, with Italian intelligence receiving reports in 1993 and Italian authorities' 1994 account confirming wealthy visitors sought personal satisfaction.
- Evidence indicates different prices were paid for killing men, women or children, with an Instagram post by Warrior Women for Liberation alleging payments up to 70,000; prosecutors say Germans, French, British and other Western visitors participated amid an overall siege death toll of up to 11,000.
- Evidence from Gavazzeni, including a Bosnian intelligence officer's testimony, is now under review by Italian counter-terrorism prosecutor Alessandro Gobbis, while US congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna pledges to investigate Americans linked to alleged 'murder tourism'.
- Claims remain contested, with UK military sources calling them an urban myth and a 2007 US military veteran testifying to tourist shooters amid foreign forces around Sarajevo and a siege death toll of up to 11,000.
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War tourists: Italy probes claims that foreigners paid to go to Sarajevo to kill civilians
The Italian justice system has opened an investigation into allegations that foreign nationals traveled to Bosnia-Herzegovina during the war in the early 1990s to kill civilians under siege in Sarajevo.
"Human safari": new testimony reveals wealthy tourists paid to hunt civilians in Sarajevo
During the siege of Sarajevo in the early 1990s, rich Italians paid to shoot civilians, prosecutors have heard. The so-called human safari was run by the Serbian military who besieged the city from surrounding hills. Journalist and novelist Ezio Gavazzeni has brought the allegations to Milanese public prosecutors this week. The story centres on rich Italians and other nationalities who supposedly paid to kill innocents. The BBC reports there wer…
Prosecutors in Milan have launched an investigation into Italians who allegedly gave huge sums of money to Serbian forces so that they could be "weekend snipers" who kill citizens for fun during the siege of Sarajevo during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Nearly 30 years after the end of the siege of Sarajevo, the Milan Public Prosecutor's Office opened an investigation against X for "aggravated voluntary homicide", targeting foreign nationals, including Italians, suspected of having paid for the shooting of civilians during a weekend.
Did tourists pay money to shoot people? Ezio Gavazzeni exposes the case – and speaks of "bloodthirsty lunatics."
The details: Enzio Gavazzeni is the one who has denounced this cruelty. In an interview in 'The World', he says that the killers "shooted anyone who was in front of the viewfinder" of his rifle, including babies.
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