by Oui
Sat Nov 15th, 2025 at 09:35:36 PM EST
Sniper tourism as an alternative to hunting big game in Africa or Alaska ... I witnessed a video clip of just such an incident and I recall it was a visitor with Karadzic. Depravity of human spirit ...
A Bosnian solider returns fire at a sniper in Sarajevo [Archive: April 6, 1992]
Italy: Prosecutors probe Sarajevo 'sniper tourism' charges | DW News |
Milan public prosecutors are investigating individuals accused of "sniper tourism." The charges accuse wealthy individuals of traveling to Sarajevo during the Bosnia war and paying to shoot civilians "for fun."
Public prosecutors in Milan have opened investigations into a list of Italians accused of paying for the chance to participate in the siege of Sarajevo as "weekend snipers," Italian media reported this week.
According to charges, wealthy foreigners would pay Serbian forces the equivalent of up to €100,000 ($116,000) to shoot civilians "for fun," the Italian daily La Repubblica wrote. The investigation is led by Alessandro Gobbis and aims at identifying Italians involved in the killing.
They are suspected of "voluntary murder aggravated by cruelty and abject motives" -- a crime which has no statute of limitations and carries a maximum life sentence.
La Repubblica reported witnesses describing wealthy Western "war tourists" who would pay a premium to target children.
This is the second investigation into the matter, after then-mayor of Sarajevo Benjamina Karic in 2022 filed criminal charges against "persons unknown" for their role in the shooting of Sarajevo's population.
Witness accounts of 'sniper tourists' shooting for 'personal satisfaction'
The charges brought in Milan allege that groups of Italians and other nationals would pay Serb forces associated with the former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic to arrange weekend excursions to the hills surrounding Sarajevo, where they would shoot at the population below as "sniper tourists."
These claims are based on witness statements collected by journalist and writer Ezio Gavazzeni, whose legal complaint earlier this year triggered the current investigation.
"There were no political or religious motivations," Gavazzeni explained, as quoted by The Guardian. "They were rich people who went there for fun and personal satisfaction. We are talking about people who love guns, who perhaps go to shooting ranges or on safari in Africa."
Remembering the Siege of Sarajevo - 1425 Days of Horror in the Bosnian Capital
Bosnia - Snipers Attack Sarajevo
(8 Nov 1994) Sniper fire and mortar rounds killed two teenage girls in Sarajevo on Tuesday (8/11). Doctors said one of the girls, 11-year-old Nermina Omerovic, died after a bullet went through a window in her apartment. The building is situated on frontlines facing Bosnian-Serb forces near the city's Holiday Inn hotel. The girl was hit in the head. Eyewitnesses said the second girl, who was not immediately identified, was killed when a mortar round hit a crowd in a suburb to the north of the city centre. Three other children and two adults were seriously injured in that attack. A shaky ceasefire in Sarajevo has generally held since February but two fierce battles in the last three nights have raised the level of military tension. U.N. commanders have requested a NATO air presence on three consecutive evenings to try to bring calm to the city.
