The Milan Prosecutor's Office set its sights on a suspect for allegedly having been part of organized trips to shoot people during the war that took place in Bosnia in the 1990s. The man, an 80-year-old truck driver, is not yet charged nor is it known what role he may have played.
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This Wednesday, February 4, the Italian Justice made progress in its investigation regarding the 'human safaris' that took place in Bosnia during the Yugoslav wars. The case concerns people who paid to participate in hunts for besieged people in Sarajevo.
Milan prosecutors are investigating an 80-year-old man for allegedly being part of one of those organized trips in the 1990s. He is a retired truck driver from the province of Pordenone, in the north of the country, according to local media.
Prosecutor Alessandro Gobbis, who identified the first suspect, summoned the man to testify on Monday, February 9, said Ezio Gavazzeni, the writer who uncovered the events that occurred in Bosnia.
Gavazzeni's investigations point to trips by Italians to shoot men, women and children between 1992 and 1995, which led the Milanese Prosecutor's Office to delve into the facts. The crimes, even without confirmed guilty or implicated, are those of multiple homicide with the aggravating circumstances of “abject motives” and “cruelty”, so they cannot prescribe.
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In detail, what Gavazzeni pointed out indicates that thousands of civilians were used as 'human safaris' within the framework of the Bosnian Serb siege. In this context, millionaires from several countries came to shoot them for leisure, acting as snipers.
Last November, after it was confirmed that an investigation was underway in Italy, former Bosnian Brigadier General Edin Subasic confirmed that wealthy Italians participated in manhunts in the territory.
These events were reported in 2022 in a documentary by Slovenian director Miran Zupancic. The audiovisual piece did not give names, but it did point out that the 'hunters' were mostly Italians, Russians and Americans.
In November 2022, the Bosnian Prosecutor's Office began analyzing the stories in the documentary following a complaint from the then mayor of Sarajevo, Bengamina Karic.
The bombings and sniper fire that devastated the Bosnian capital were among the bloodiest chapters in recent history, with 11,000 civilians killed.
With EFE and Reuters
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