Sniper Tourism at Sarajevo 1992-96?

[Ursus Minor]

Milan public prosecutor investigates rich snipers shooting in Sarajevo​

They called them the 'weekend snipers'. That is, wealthy people who, between 1993 and 1995, 'paid to shoot for fun at the citizens of Sarajevo, during the war in Yugoslavia'. The Milan public prosecutor's office is investigating these facts, which the journalist and writer Ezio Gavazzeni has denounced in a complaint, for voluntary manslaughter aggravated by cruelty and abject motives. The aim is to identify who took part in the massacre of over 11,000 people between 1993 and 1995. Ilsole24ore

Wealthy “sniper tourists” allegedly paid upward of $90,000 to shoot people during “human safari” trips to Sarajevo in the 1990s — with an extra fee to kill children, according to wild claims being probed by Italian prosecutors.

The investigation was sparked after Italian writer Ezio Gavezzini alleged he had uncovered evidence that wealthy gun enthusiasts — dubbed “sniper tourists” — would pay Bosnian Serb forces for the chance to gun down residents at random during the four-year siege of the city, the Guardian reported.
More than 10,000 were killed in Sarajevo by snipers and shelling between 1992 and 1996 during the Balkan Wars. NY Post Nov 12, 2025

Gavazzeni said he first read reports of the alleged tourist-led shootings in Italian media outlets in the ’90s, but started digging deeper after watching a 2022 documentary about a former Serb soldier who claimed foreigners would shoot at residents from the hills in Sarajevo.

He claims a key source was a former Bosnian intelligence officer.
The newly launched probe, being led by prosecutors in Milan, is seeking to identify any Italians involved in the so-called sniper tourism.

He returned to the topic after seeing "Sarajevo Safari", a documentary film from 2022 by Slovenian director Miran Zupanic which alleges that those involved in the killings came from several countries, including the US and Russia as well as Italy.

Gavazzeni began to dig further and in February handed prosecutors his findings, said to amount to a 17-page file including a report by former Sarajevo mayor Benjamina Karic. |


No doubt that when there is war depravity rules. Back at the time I wouldn't have believed much of it, but thirty years later with more knowledge of the psychopath I think there is a good chance that those things might have happened.

 

[Ruth]

How about identifying ALL the people engaging in this?

 

[Nević Nenad]

He claims a key source was a former Bosnian intelligence office.

This should be enough as a clue. Alex Krainer was right about what will happen. MI6 never sleeps. War in Ukraine is over. Goes nicely with this:

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Grupa mladića prekinula program Dana srpske kulture u Splitu, premijer traži hitnu reakciju

Splitska policija traga za mlađim osobama koje su 3. novembra prekinule program Dana srpske kulture u prostorijama Gradskog kotara Blatine, prenosi Hrvatska-radio televizija o slučaju koji je izazvao burne reakcije u javnosti. Kako prenosi HRT neslužbeno, pri upadu su učesnicima rekli da se...

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Upali na Dane srpske kulture u Splitu, Srbi bježali. Javili se policija, Plenković...

U PROSTORIJAMA Gradskog kotara Blatine u Splitu večeras se dogodio incident tijekom obilježavanja Dana srpske kulture, koje je organiziralo Srpsko kulturno društvo Prosvjeta.

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(now it is turn in Serbia to do something against Croats or Muslims, but probably not going to happen. For two reasons:
1. No one is interested.
2. Vucic's media is already doing that for years. No need to animate people to do something like that.). I dont exclude that bosnian Serbs could do something in their part of Bosnia, they are easier to manipulate.


BTW, majority of people killed in Sarajevo were Sarajevo's Serbs and Croats, who were ethnically cleansed for the Muslim government by criminal gangs posing as a "special forces of the Bosnian army". That weren't 10.000 people, and were not killed by the snipers. Majority of them were just ritually slaughtered with their throats cut, as Muslims all over the world usually do it.

Claims such as this were emerging during the nineties, but in stories with Dutch, Belgian, Sweden and similar mercenaries fighting for Croats. Without any proof ever. (on Serbian side there was mostly Russians, Ukrainians and Belorussians, and on Bosnian Muslim's Iranians, Turks, Chechens ....) Also, Serbs were demonized by the West during the nineties. The whole Nato and the West were first indirectly and later directly fighting with Serbs, with Yugoslavia (Serbia) under direct or indirect sanctions all that time. Does it sound eligible that they would go to "Serbian snipers to shoot kids"? Imagine wealthy psychopaths shooting kids with snipers in Ukraine now, but from Russian side.

 

[Nević Nenad]

@mkrnhr

I see that you gave me thumb down there. May I ask why? I understand that you react emotionally to the news, that's OK. It is created to provoke emotional response. We'll see more of things like that in upcoming months I think. It will spread. But, what whit you disagree in my post, please?

 

[mkrnhr]

@mkrnhr

I see that you gave me thumb down there. May I ask why? I understand that you react emotionally to the news, that's OK. It is created to provoke emotional response. We'll see more of things like that in upcoming months I think. It will spread. But, what whit you disagree in my post, please?

Because it's the same old story people should have grown from by now. Every time something comes up about the sad and tragic events in Yougoslavia, the same old blame game restarts in the forum: it's the serbs, it's the croats, it's the bosnians, it's the cyclists, etc. NATO and allies divided the country to destroy it, and blaming entire populations takes us back to the beginning of the same discussion, again and again and again.

 

[Nević Nenad]

Because it's the same old story people should have grown from by now. Every time something comes up about the sad and tragic events in Yougoslavia, the same old blame game restarts in the forum: it's the serbs, it's the croats, it's the bosnians, it's the cyclists, etc. NATO and allies divided the country to destroy it, and blaming entire populations takes us back to the beginning of the same discussion, again and again and again.

I understand, but I wasn't writing of that. I'm not interested in that. I'd say that you are jumping ahead with your conclusions and reading a bit superficially.


I was writing of this. Unfortunately, I found only one video in English. There is more in Croatian, where he goes in more depth.


The point of news such as that one is polarization of the people in order to get them to make a war (of course, the beginning of the war would be "helped" from aside. Just as it did happen already. The scheme is already there. Old narratives already deep in human consciousness from the 1990s. Think as any (mostly) westerner: "I remember some Serbs, they are bad, they have war somewhere, we should stop it, I think there is a movie about that" and so on. Then, as it is going these days, Croatians attacking Serbs and Muslims, Muslims attacking Serbs, Serbs still not attacking anyone, but the media is in frenzy, etc.


This is not done for the polarization of the world, but for the polarization of the people of the Ex-Yugoslav republics. This now, concretely for the polarization of Bosnian Muslims (or Bosniaks). If someone in the world gets emotionally triggered - even the better. But, the weak spot in the whole plan, IMO are the people of the Balkan. The average Croat, Serb and Muslim are changed (so did the average Kosovo Albanian too). No wish for war in the wast majority of people. They want to live normal, good lives. I guess that this news will "slip" into Bosnia in these days more, and that is the real goal. Off course "hardened" by Serbian and Croatian media (none of them works for the people of Serbia or Croatia).


So far reactions are: Croats: "no one mentions us, we dont care, and it was a war", Serbs: "it was a war, if it is the truth we are sorry" (and then switch all to the internal politics), Muslims: not much different so far, but its just beginning. We will see.

(BTW, situation in Bosnia and in Balkan got much calmer since Trump got in power. More relaxed)

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