Three decades after the end of the Bosnian War, a shocking new allegation has emerged concerning war crimes committed during the siege of Sarajevo. Authorities in Italy have opened an official investigation into whether the so-called “Sarajevo human safari” truly existed – claims that wealthy foreign nationals paid for the opportunity to shoot civilians during the city’s siege.
Documentary film triggered the investigation
As reported by Index, the probe centres on Sarajevo Safari, a 2022 documentary by Slovenian director Miran Zupanič. In the film, witnesses and former organisers – shown in silhouette with distorted voices – recount how affluent Italian and German “tourists” allegedly travelled to Sarajevo and paid significant sums to fire sniper rifles at civilians living in the besieged city.
According to testimonies, participants in these “safaris” paid the equivalent of several million forints for a single session. Some accounts even claim that those who wanted to target children were charged higher fees.
Milan prosecutors examining the allegations
The scandal was brought to light by an Italian writer and two prominent lawyers. Based on the 17-page dossier they submitted, the Milan Public Prosecutor’s Office is now investigating whether the events described actually occurred. Leaked information suggests that several Italian citizens are among the alleged perpetrators, including a Milan-based plastic surgeon and individuals linked to the cities of Trieste and Turin.
The report also states that during the war, the individuals in question flew from Trieste to Belgrade, from where they were transported to the hills surrounding Sarajevo – the positions used by snipers who fired on the city for years.
More than 300 snipers, hundreds of victims
According to the relevant institute at the University of Sarajevo, more than 300 snipers operated in the region during the siege, and at least 225 civilians – including 60 children – were killed by sniper fire. Other estimates suggest that the total number of civilian victims of sniper activity may have reached 11,000.
It remains unclear whether snipers included both soldiers and civilians, MTI reports. Bosnian Serb veterans, however, deny that any “human safari” ever existed, claiming the documentary is based on lies.
Possible intelligence links
Investigators say that certain classified intelligence documents may also point to the events, reportedly once held by Italy’s military intelligence service, SISMI. A former Bosnian agent has claimed that Italian services were warned about the appearance of “war tourists” as early as 1993.
The Milan Prosecutor’s Office is examining this angle as well and has requested relevant files from the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague, where earlier proceedings included witness testimonies referring to similar phenomena.
Former Sarajevo mayor assisting the investigation
Benjamina Karić, who served as the mayor of Sarajevo between 2021 and 2024, has sent an official statement to Italian authorities, providing the city’s available documentation. The lawyers who launched the investigation – including Nicola Brigida and Guido Salvini – hope the proceedings will finally shed light on the identities of any possible perpetrators.
The depths of inhumnity and depravity that Bosnians Serbs sunk to during the break up of Yugoslavia was unparalleled in Europe since the end of WWII. There is a core of unrepentant genocidists that control Republika Srpska that Fidesz insists on promoting. These people today have schools teach elementary students that genocidal war criminals Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic are heroes of the state. The reason Fidesz promotes these fascists is simply because they are allied with Russia and it is in Russia’s interest to create division and conflict in the Balkans. Every country that is a Russian ally is sought after by Fidesz for alliance – Belarus, Serbia, central Asian republics, China and formerly the Syrian mass murdering dictatorship. The more you find out about the Hungarian government’s friends the more ashamed you are to be Hungarian.
Hungary refused to vote in favour of a memorial day for the victims of the Srebrenica genocide. Shame on Hungarians who support genocidal fascists.
https://www.eunews.it/en/2024/05/24/hungary-breaks-eu-front-on-memorial-day-for-srebrenica-genocide/
Larry you are clearly an idiot or a paid wow-er. If you seek Nazis/Communists look around in Ukraine and in the European Parliament and you’ll find them. Interestingly they are good friends now.
The Hungarian government have a very good relationship with the Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian governments, like the Russian, Belarusian and USA too. You know why? Because it’s a small country (thanks to your ancestors) and OUR interest is the first. So we try to make good relationships with everyone who let us and NOT making enemies. We have no right to tell to any countries how to live their lives. The best and the only thing we can do is respect and accept their system and support the current leaders – obviously. Law isn’t about sympathy or your idiot ideas. Law says the leader of a country leading the country. And leaders should be in good relationship otherwise it’s called betrayal.
But don’t worry, the western civilization soon doomed by their own idiotism and the sentence what Apponyi siad become true: “We’ll stand above the grave of those countries who dug Hungarys grave”
Yours included except if you from the US. With Trump you may win few extra years before it sinks although he’s a 2 bladed weapon so never know when he goes mad.