Overview
- The Milan prosecutor's office has opened a criminal inquiry and begun interviewing witnesses after receiving two document submissions from writer Ezio Gavazzeni in January and October.
- Speaking in Rome, Gavazzeni said only about 15% of his findings are public and that he recently gave testimony to specialist investigators, with additional materials delivered through his legal team.
- The filings allege that, between 1993 and 1995, affluent foreigners paid to take sniper positions around Sarajevo to shoot civilians for entertainment, with purported costs and travel logistics described in the documents.
- Gavazzeni says testimonies indicate involvement from numerous Western countries, with some accounts mentioning Americans and Canadians, and a Bosnian intelligence officer has said he heard of wealthy Italians joining such hunts.
- Veteran war reporter and novelist Arturo Pérez-Reverte has publicly expressed doubt that organized tourist killing trips occurred, though investigators continue to evaluate the submitted evidence.