Overview
- Croatian journalist Domagoj Margetic’s Pay and Shoot alleges wealthy foreigners paid to shoot civilians in besieged Sarajevo and even competed over targets such as “the most beautiful women.”
- The reported documents cite price tiers paid to Serbian handlers during 1992–1996, including about 80,000 Deutsche marks for middle‑aged women, 95,000 for young women, and 110,000 for pregnant women.
- Margetic says the allegations rest on files attributed to Bosnian intelligence officer Nedzad Ugljen, who was killed in 1996, and he reports militia accounts that an unnamed European royal took part.
- The Times of London highlighted the book’s claims this week, and Reuters has reported that Italian prosecutors are already investigating alleged “sniper tourism,” with an 80‑year‑old former truck driver placed under investigation in February on premeditated murder counts.
- Margetic further asserts the idea began in Croatia and involved security services, but none of these specific claims have been independently verified, and verifying events from the Sarajevo siege—where more than 10,000 died from sniper fire and shelling—is difficult decades later.