"According to investigators, groups of sniper tourists are alleged to have participated in the mass killings after paying large sums of money to soldiers belonging to the army of Radovan Karadzic the former Bosnian Serb leader who in 2016 was found guilty of genocide and other crimes against humanity to be transported to the hills surrounding Sarajevo so that they could shoot at the population for pleasure."
"More than 10,000 people were killed in Sarajevo by shelling and sniper fire between 1992 and 1996 in what was the longest siege in modern history, after Bosnia and Herzegovina declared independence from Yugoslavia. The snipers were perhaps the most feared element of life under siege in Sarajevo because they would indiscriminately pick off people on the streets, including children."
"The investigation originated from a legal complaint submitted by Ezio Gavazzeni, a Milan-based writer who gathered evidence on the allegations, as well as a report sent to the prosecutors by the former mayor of Sarajevo Benjamina Karic. Gavazzeni said he had first read reports about the alleged sniper tourists in the Italian press in the 1990s, but it was not until he watched Sarajevo Safari, a 2022 documentary by the Slovenian director Miran Zupanic, that he began to investigate further."
A Croatian investigative reporter filed a complaint with Milan prosecutors accusing Serbian president Aleksandar Vucic of involvement in alleged sniper tourism that targeted Sarajevo civilians during the 1992–1996 siege. Milan prosecutors opened an investigation aimed at identifying Italians allegedly involved on charges of voluntary murder aggravated by cruelty and abject motives. Investigators allege groups of sniper tourists paid soldiers of Radovan Karadzic’s army to transport them to hills surrounding Sarajevo to shoot at the population for pleasure. More than 10,000 people were killed by shelling and sniper fire during the siege. The complaint was supported by evidence gathered by Ezio Gavazzeni and a report from former Sarajevo mayor Benjamina Karic. Vucic denied ever firing on Sarajevo and has not yet commented on the latest allegations.
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