{"id":337919,"date":"2026-05-20T19:43:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T14:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=337919"},"modified":"2026-05-20T19:43:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T14:13:07","slug":"sarajevo-human-safari-participants-investigated-news-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/sarajevo-human-safari-participants-investigated-news-world\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Sarajevo human safari participants’ investigated | News World"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bosnian Serb snipers tortured civilians while sniping at them each day within the Nineteen Nineties (Picture: AFP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Prosecutors in\u00a0Croatia have opened an investigation taking a look at two tourists who’re accused of participating in a \u2018human safari\u2019 which killed innocent Bosnians.<\/p>\n

Throughout the Siege of Sarajevo within the Nineteen Nineties, European tourists were accused of paying to shoot at civilians within the war-torn city.<\/p>\n

The country\u2019s justice ministry said: \u2018An investigation was opened on April 25 against an Austrian citizen and one other as-yet-unidentified individual in reference to possible participation in so-called \u201csniper tours\u201d in Sarajevo in the course of the Bosnian War.\u2019<\/p>\n

In November, officials in Milan opened an investigation by which two Italian tourists were questioned over their involvement within the sickening \u2018safari\u2019.<\/p>\n

Alma Zadic, a Bosnian-born member of the Austrian Green Party and the previous justice minister, said of the brand new allegations: \u2018The concept that people could have paid money to deliberately shoot at civilians \u2014 even children \u2014 is sort of unimaginable in its cruelty.<\/p>\n

\u2018Such acts represent a level of contempt for humanity that leaves one speechless. The victims and their relatives have a right to truth, justice and clarification.\u2019<\/p>\n

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The investigation comes after a book published last month by Croatian journalist Domagoj Margetic claimed an Austrian was involved within the shootings, possibly an aristocrat.<\/p>\n

The book, Pay And Shoot, comprises an interview with \u2018Jovan\u2019, a former Bosnian Serb army major.<\/p>\n

The book\u2019s creator told The Times: \u2018He said an Austrian who got here in late 1992 and in 1993 was nicknamed \u201cGrof\u201d by the Serbs, which suggests \u201cCount\u201d in Serbo-Croatian.<\/p>\n

\u2018I even have also been told that Serbian soldiers at Sarajevo checkpoints remember hunters showing Austrian passports.\u2019<\/p>\n

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Prosecutors in Italy are already investigating a few of their residents (Picture: AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Allegations in regards to the snipers emerged following the discharge of the 2022 documentary Sarajevo Safari by Miran Zupanic.<\/p>\n

Italian, Croatian, British, French, Spanish, Russian and German nationals have been accused of attending the \u2018tours\u2019, allegedly organised by Serbs and Croats.<\/p>\n

The shooting in town was so bad that two important streets, Ulica Zmaja od Bosne and Me\u0161a Selimovi\u0107 Boulevard, were dubbed \u2018sniper alley\u2019.<\/p>\n

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Residents needed to run to and from grocery stores, work and residential while dodging bullets (Picture: AFP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Throughout the siege, Sarajevo\u2019s electric, gas and water supplies were cut off \u2013 leaving those throughout the city with no access to vital infrastructure.<\/p>\n

Former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic and the commander of the Bosnian Serb Army\u2019s Sarajevo-Romanija Corps, Stanislav Galic, were each found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity on the Hague over the attack.<\/p>\n

Each were eventually handed sentences of life imprisonment. Karadzic is serving his sentence within the UK, while Galic was taken to\u00a0Germany.<\/p>\n

The siege resulted in 1995, leaving 13,952 people dead. 5,434 of those casualties were civilians.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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