Overview
- Counterterror prosecutor Alessandro Gobbis is leading the case with the Carabinieri’s ROS unit, weighing potential charges of voluntary homicide aggravated by cruelty and abject motives.
- The probe stems from a 17-page complaint by journalist Ezio Gavazzeni, backed by former magistrate Guido Salvini and ex‑Sarajevo mayor Benjamina Karic, drawing on the 2022 documentary Sarajevo Safari.
- Allegations describe wealthy foreigners paying roughly €80,000–€100,000 to be escorted by Bosnian Serb forces to sniper positions, with higher fees reportedly charged to shoot children.
- Witnesses cited include former Bosnian intelligence officer Edin Subasic, who says Italian SISMI was warned in 1993 about at least five Italians, along with accounts from a Slovenian intelligence official, a wounded firefighter and a former US Marine.
- Bosnia’s consul in Milan has pledged full cooperation, Serbian veterans have rejected the claims as false, and investigators face decades-old evidence, classified files and cross‑border hurdles.