Magistrates investigate Italian noble over Sarajevo ‘human safari’

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Magistrates are investigating a Milanese noble suspected of paying to shoot people during the siege of Sarajevo in the 1990s. A separate story from an Italian news agency reported that police have seized evidence that includes a photo of one suspect, a 65-year-old man, with technical equipment and a silencer. A former partner reportedly told police that the man had said that he and others used to spend the weekend “being snipers and shooting Muslims”. It is not clear if he is the Italian noble in question. Allegations of outsiders paying to shoot and kill Bosnian civilians surfaced in a documentary a few years ago. Subsequent reporting has led to a probe by Italian magistrates and a book published in April by a Croatian journalist. An 80-year-old former truck driver is among others who are under investigation.