Overview
- Italian prosecutors opened an investigation after journalist Ezio Gavazzeni filed a complaint alleging that foreigners paid Bosnian Serb fighters to shoot civilians in Sarajevo in the 1990s.
- Under Italian procedure, opening a case follows such complaints as a formality, and no suspects have been named as prosecutors have not commented publicly.
- Bosnia’s state prosecutor said it has not been contacted by Milan counterparts, even as survivors and Sarajevo officials urge broader inquiries and accountability.
- The allegations, long reported in wartime media and revisited by the documentary Sarajevo Safari, rely largely on witness accounts and documents rather than physical evidence.
- Former Bosnian army intelligence officer Edin Subasic says he learned of paid shootings from a 1993 prisoner interrogation and that Bosnian intelligence relayed the claims to Italian military intelligence.