Overview
- Prosecutors in Milan have launched a criminal investigation into claims that foreigners, including Italians, paid to shoot civilians around besieged Sarajevo in the 1990s.
- The probe followed a filing by journalist Ezio Gavazzeni, who submitted documents and testimony drawn in part from the 2022 documentary Sarajevo Safari and Bosnia's FTV archives.
- Investigators are examining a former Bosnian intelligence officer’s account that Italy’s SISMI was alerted in 1993 and replied it had stopped trips originating from Trieste but provided no names.
- The case has been transferred to the Carabinieri’s ROS for complex international inquiries, and authorities have not announced arrests or charges.
- Context from local researchers notes more than 11,000 killed in the siege of Sarajevo, including 1,601 children, with an estimated 300–350 deaths attributed to snipers and documented participation by foreign volunteers.