An alleged Sarajevo human safari hunter told his wife he had spent weeks shooting Muslims and suffered nightmares about the people he had killed in the 1990s.
Milan prosecutors said today that Italian police had seized ‘significant’ evidence during a search of the home of one of four people under investigation for murder over alleged ‘weekend sniper’ trips to the Balkan city during the Bosnia war.
The suspects, wealthy Western tourists, allegedly paid large sums of money to Serbian militia so they could shoot Bosnian citizens during the 1993 to 1995 Siege of Sarajevo, in which 11,500 people died.
Milanese prosecutors added that an Italian aristocrat is being investigated, though it is not clear if the noble was the same figure who allegedly told his wife he spent weeks shooting Muslims in the city during the 1990s.
Distasteful claims from the bloody conflict were explored in a 2022 documentary that suggested tourists, including Brits, Germans, Spaniards and Italians, as well as snipers from Russia, the US and Canada, paid higher sums to shoot at children.
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The man reportedly used the right to remain silent when previously quizzed by prosecutors.
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It comes after a book claimed that the gun-toting enthusiasts who travelled thousands of miles to shoot the innocent civilians competed to see who could kill the most beautiful women.
Nedzad Ugljen gathered proof of the ‘safari’, including files showing the tourists paid their Serbian handlers 80,000 marks - almost £35,000 at the time - to shoot at middle-aged men and women.
But young women would command a higher price of 95,000 marks, while the most expensive ‘targets’ were pregnant women, priced at 110,000 marks.
Margetic said: ‘Ugljen also wrote the foreigners competed to see who could shoot the most beautiful women.’
The agent revealed he had spoken to members of the Bosnian-Serb militia who hosted the foreign snipers, with ‘many’ claiming that a European royal was among those who took part.