In Sarajevo, someone called it “weekend sniper”. People who went to the Bosnian capital to shoot civilians trapped during the siege of the city by Bosnian Serb forces between April 1992 and February 1996. For 1,425 days, Sarajevo was targeted by the military, police, and most likely the armed forces. “tourist shooter”which has plunged the multi-ethnic city into a “medieval hell”, using the words of the prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
More than 11,500 people were killed, and at least 50,000 others injured, mainly by foreign civilian snipers, an Italian court that recently opened an investigation into “intentional murder aggravated by cruelty and despicable motives.” He was preparing to move on to the first audition. The Milan prosecutor’s office suspects several Italian citizens of taking part in this terrifying “human safari.”
Prosecutor Alessandro Gobbis seeks to identify people who allegedly paid up to 100,000 euros to leave “playing war” and killing defenseless civilians. They try to get supplies, provide wood, water or wander around a heavily bombed city and come under fire from shooters who track them down at crossroads, on highways (the tragic “Sniper Alley”, all in a straight line).
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