Overview
- Prosecutor Alessandro Gobbis is leading the Milan investigation launched after a complaint by writer Ezio Gavazzeni and lawyers Nicola Brigida and Guido Salvini.
- The complaint asserts that documents and witness statements indicate organized trips by Italian citizens to Sarajevo via Trieste during 1992–1995 to shoot civilians.
- Prosecutors are evaluating potential counts of multiple homicide with aggravating factors of abject motives and cruelty, which under Italian law could make the offenses imprescriptible.
- No suspects have been publicly identified at this stage, with investigators focusing on establishing travel patterns and corroborating accounts from soldiers and intelligence sources.
- The inquiry follows years of attention, including the 2022 film Sarajevo Safari and a subsequent review by Bosnia-Herzegovina’s prosecutor, set against ICTY findings that about 6,000 civilians were killed during the siege and convictions of Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic.