Italy does not have enough evidence to bring Sarajevo 'human safari' case to trial, agency says

Italy investigates alleged 'human safari' during the Bosnian War
The Italian Justice has not yet found sufficient evidence to bring to trial suspects in the case of the so-called "human safari" in Sarajevo during the Bosnian War, a source from the Italian Public Prosecutor's Office revealed this Thursday (18) to the Reuters news agency.
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The Italian Public Prosecutor's Office has been investigating the allegation that, during the conflict, in the 1990s, there was "war tourism" in which people went to Bosnia to fire rifles at civilians in the siege of the city. The tourists, according to the complaint, paid an amount between 80,000 and 100,000 euros in current values (between R$490,000 and R$610,000) to Bosnian Serb militias and intermediaries.
Milan prosecutors placed five people under investigation due to allegations that Italians and other foreigners paid to shoot civilians during the siege of Sarajevo (1992-1995). Among the five suspects is a Milanese aristocrat who allegedly bragged at a dinner with former schoolmates that he had gone to Sarajevo to shoot people, according to the Reuters source.
The investigation began last year after journalist and novelist Ezio Gavazzeni filed a formal complaint about allegations that wealthy foreigners traveled to Bosnia to take part in shooting tours during the war in the former republic Yugoslavia.
Despite the accusation, the prosecutor's office currently has only circumstantial evidence and no concrete evidence, the source at the Italian Prosecutor's Office told Reuters. "Frankly, at this moment the prosecutors could never ask for any of the suspects to be brought to trial," he said.
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According to the Reuters source, Milan prosecutor Alessandro Gobbis, who is leading the investigation, and chief prosecutor Marcello Viola will meet on June 29 with Belgian and Bosnian prosecutors in Eurojust, the EU's judicial cooperation body, in Luxembourg, to discuss the case.
"The hope is that the meeting with foreign colleagues and new investigations will bring additional elements", said the source.
Man walks through the deep snow of a cemetery on December 13, 1995, in the city of Sarajevo, a region that suffered from armed conflict between 1992 and 1995
AP/John Gaps III
In recent days, the Italian police searched the home of one of the suspects, a 66-year-old former municipal employee from Genoa who now resides in the province of Alessandria in northwestern Italy, the source said. The man had already been questioned in recent months and exercised his right to remain silent.
The search was ordered after the man's former partner testified that he had nightmares about what he allegedly did 30 years ago, the source said. At the time, police seized a silencer and a photograph of a sniper rifle.
Also according to the Reuters source, there is a parallel line of investigation into an alleged secret network in Milan, which would have organized shooting excursions in the 1990s, but which has not produced results so far.
Around 11,000 civilians were killed by bombings and sniper fire from Bosnian Serb army positions in the hills around Sarajevo during the 1992-95 war, which followed Bosnia's declaration of independence from Yugoslavia.
The Italian investigation was opened after Gavazzeni reported allegations that Italians and other foreigners paid members of the Bosnian Serb forces so they could take part in shooting tours, sometimes called "sniper tourism."

Source: G1