Overview
- Austria’s justice ministry says it opened an inquiry into an Austrian citizen and an unidentified person over possible participation in so‑called Sarajevo 'sniper tours', but no criminal charges have been announced.
- The probe was prompted by Domagoj Margetić’s recent book Pay and Shoot, which presents dossiers and interviews alleging foreigners paid fighters to target civilians during the 1992–1995 siege.
- Earlier testimony, including former US Marine John Jordan’s 2007 Hague statement describing foreign 'shooter tourists', is being cited alongside the new material as part of the evidence picture.
- Investigators in Italy and prosecutors in Croatia have also opened related inquiries, and authorities face hurdles such as lost witnesses, fading records and the need to authenticate decades‑old documents across borders.
- The allegations sit against the wider history of the Siege of Sarajevo, which killed thousands of civilians and led to ICTY convictions of Bosnian Serb leaders, and survivors say the new probes are key to truth and potential prosecutions.