Sarajevo -Tourists 'paid £70,000 to shoot innocent people in "human safari" hunting trips to Sarajevo - 1990s

[Dotta]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1988542440723091801

"Prosecutors in Milan
have opened an investigation into Italian tourists who allegedly paid £70,000 to shoot innocent people in
'human safari' hunting trips to Sarajevo, with extra charged to kill children.

The wealthy foreign gun enthusiasts
are accused of travelling to the city for 'sniper tourism'
during its four-year siege in the 1990s by Serb-Bosnian militias amid the Bosnian War.

Between 1992 and 1996, more than 10,000 people were killed in Sarajevo by shelling and sniper fire in the longest siege of a capital city in the history of modern warfare.

The Bosnian consul in Milan,
Dag Dumrukcic, told la Repubblica
that Italy had the 'full cooperation' of his country’s government.

'We are eager to uncover the truth about such a cruel matter and settle accounts with the past.
I am aware of some information that I will contribute to the investigation',
he said."

 

[Little Jack]

Just when you think you've heard the worst...

 

[3llecia]

What. The. F***.

 

[MelmothTheLost]

Also being reported by the Grauniad, albeit much less prominently.

Milan prosecutors investigate alleged ‘sniper tourism’ during Bosnian war

Groups from Italy and elsewhere alleged to have paid Serb soldiers to shoot Sarajevo residents during siege

www.theguardian.com

 

[MelmothTheLost]

And the Independent (even less prominently. You have to search for it which you can't do if you don't know about it):

War tourist foreigners ‘paid £80k to shoot at civilians’ during Siege of Sarajevo

Prosecutors are examining allegations that foreigners paid between €80k and €100k to take part in a ‘sniper safari’

www.independent.co.uk

 

[ChatteringBirds]

Will the people who paid to commit murder be named and charged with murder, or will this be quickly and quietly made to go away? Let's take a vote!
(/sarcasm)

 

[Gators North]

Will the people who paid to commit murder be named and charged with murder, or will this be quickly and quietly made to go away? Let's take a vote!
(/sarcasm)

I hope these “people” will be named and charged with murder, but you never know.

 

[ChatteringBirds]

I hope these “people” will be named and charged with murder, but you never know.

It happened in the '90s so seems very unlikely anything resembling justice will happen now. This world sometimes...

 

[LadyL]

It happened in the '90s so seems very unlikely anything resembling justice will happen now. This world sometimes...

but they're trying ...

'We are eager to uncover the truth about such a cruel matter and settle accounts with the past. I am aware of some information that I will contribute to the investigation,' he said.

Tourists 'paid £70,000 to shoot people in

Prosecutors in Milan have opened an investigation into Italian tourists who allegedly paid £70,000 to shoot innocent people in 'human safari' hunting trips to Sarajevo, with extra charged to kill children.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Sweeper2000]

I won't lie this sounds like an urban myth. The amount of people who would want to would be incredibly small most people don't want to fistfight let alone shoot people dead. Hitmen are rare enough genuinely.

 

[PrairieWind]

I don't doubt the depravity of some humans. And that war certainly brought forth some of the worst. But this does sound a bit suspicious to me. What is the evidence to support these allegations?

 

[MelmothTheLost]

I don't doubt the depravity of some humans. And that war certainly brought forth some of the worst. But this does sound a bit suspicious to me. What is the evidence to support these allegations?

I don't think we've seen any evidence so far, but that is presumably what the Italian authorities either have and are evaluating or are looking for.

 

[Sweeper2000]

There is talk of a report made by serving forces at the time to Italian secret services. Apparently that stands as something real.


"The case began with a complaint filed in January by the journalist and writer Ezio Gavazzeni, supported by two attorneys and former magistrate Guido Salvini. Their 17-page filing compiles witness statements and communications with Bosnian sources who, as early as 1993, reported the presence of Italian nationals in sniper positions around the city.

Among the materials cited is an email exchange with a former official from Bosnia’s military intelligence services, who claims to have alerted Italy’s foreign intelligence agency — then known as SISMI and now called AISE — to the presence of at least five Italian sharpshooters. One witness reportedly identified Italians from Turin, Milan, and Trieste."

Italy Opens Inquiry Into Alleged “War Tourism” Killings During Siege of Sarajevo - InTrieste

Reading Time: 2 minutesby InTrieste Prosecutors in Milan have opened an investigation into allegations that Italian citizens paid to travel to Bosnia in the early 1990s and shoot civilians during the Siege of Sarajevo, a chapter of the Bosnian War long marked by indiscriminate violence against...

intrieste.com

 

[Sweeper2000]

A basic logical observation that again adds doubt to it. This supposition of different prices per specific type of target. If they were posted on a hill taking "potshots" then how would anyone regulate the targets that appeared? Was the deal "if you pay to shoot a man but shoot a woman we shoot you and presumably bring allot and I mean allot of attention on ourselves"? Sounds silly doesn't it? They couldn't regulate what targets appeared or when so they wouldn't be able to charge according to type if target. Its also true that if international organisations like the UN get word of it with proof then they will occupy and they didn't want that obviously. I'm calling bs on it.

 

[Dotta]

" 'We've put a stop to it
and there won't be any more safaris',
the officer was told,
according to Ansa news agency.

Within two to three months the trips had stopped.

More than 11,000 civilians died in the three-year siege of Sarajevo."

Italy probes claim that tourists paid to go to Bosnia to kill besieged civilians

Italians and others are alleged to have paid large sums to fire at Bosnians risking their lives in besieged Sarajevo.

www.bbc.com

 

[ErinC]

My freshman year college roommate was a refugee from Sarajevo. The stories she told would curl your hair, and she only told us the milder ones. MOO I have no trouble believing that this happened.

 

[Dotta]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1990010069480624470

 

[MelmothTheLost]

Serbia's current president is accused of involvement in Sarajevo 'human safaris' where foreign tourists paid to be snipers and kill civilians​

The scandal surrounding alleged 'human safaris' during the siege of Sarajevo has escalated, with the fresh allegation that Serbia's current president participated in the hunting trips of unarmed civilians.

Aleksandar Vučić, who took office in 2017, has been accused of taking part in grotesque expeditions where wealthy foreign tourists would shoot at people with snipers during the four-year Bosnian Serb siege of the city in the 1990s.

Croatian investigative journalist Domagoj Margetic has written to the prosecutor's office in Milan alleging that Mr Vučić participated in and facilitated sniper tourism in Sarajevo, claims the politician has previously denied.

The allegation against the Serbian President has been echoed by Serbian lawyer Čedomir Stojković, who is putting pressure on magistrates in Belgrade to launch an investigation.

In his letter to prosecutors in Milan, Mr Margetic cites a video from 1993 which he claims showed Mr Vučić carrying a sniper rifle alongside other armed men.

Sarajevo 'human safari' scandal grows as Serbia leader accused

Aleksandar Vučić, who took office in 2017, has been accused of taking part in trips for wealthy foreign tourists to shoot at civilians during the four-year siege of Sarajevo in the 1990s.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Stunned]

What. The. F***.

Worth repeating.