Overview
- In mid‑June 2026 Milan prosecutors placed multiple people under investigation over claims that Italians and other wealthy foreigners paid to join sniper excursions that targeted civilians during the 1992–95 siege of Sarajevo.
- Carabinieri searched a suspect’s home in Alessandria and seized weapons‑related items, including a silencer and a photograph of a precision rifle, after a former partner told investigators the man spoke of weekend trips to Bosnia and suffered nightmares about killings.
- Prosecutors describe the current case as largely circumstantial and say they do not yet have the firm, direct evidence required to ask a judge to send any suspect to trial.
- Investigators plan to press for cross‑border cooperation at a Eurojust meeting on June 29, 2026 with Belgian and Bosnian counterparts to pursue additional lines of inquiry and evidence gathering.
- The allegations stem from a 2022 documentary, archival files cited in the book Pay and Shoot, and long‑standing survivor testimony, and they raise legal and moral questions decades after the siege about accountability for wartime violence and the challenges of proving crimes so long after they occurred.