{"id":5442,"date":"2026-02-05T17:13:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T17:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/badvibes.live\/?p=5442"},"modified":"2026-02-05T17:13:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T17:13:27","slug":"man-in-his-80s-is-quizzed-over-human-safari-hunting-trips-in-sarajevo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/badvibes.live\/?p=5442","title":{"rendered":"Man in his 80s is quizzed over \u2018human safari\u2019 hunting trips in Sarajevo"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An 80-year-old Italian man has been arrested on suspicion of paying money to shoot fleeing residents of Sarajevo in the 1990s.<\/p>\n

In November, prosecutors in\u00a0Milan<\/a>\u00a0opened an investigation into\u00a0Italian<\/a>\u00a0tourists accused of paying \u00a370,000 to join the \u2018human safari\u2019,\u00a0shooting and killing innocent Bosnians.<\/a><\/p>\n

Prosecutors allege these \u2018tourists\u2019, many of whom had ties to far-right circles, paid the Bosnian Serb army for weekend trips to Sarajevo, where they shot from rooftops at the city below.<\/p>\n

They paid an additional fee to kill children with the sniper rifles, according to the court filing.<\/p>\n

The elderly man, a retired truck driver who lives in a small village near Italy\u2019s border with\u00a0Slovenia<\/a>, was arrested after boasting of \u2018hunting men\u2019 in the Balkan city.<\/p>\n

When police searched his home, they found legally owned handguns, a rifle, and multiple shotguns.<\/p>\n

The man has been accused by prosecutors of \u2018causing the deaths of defenceless civilians, including women, the elderly, and children, by firing sniper rifles from the hills surrounding the city of Sarajevo\u2019.<\/p>\n

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Several streets were dubbed \u2018sniper alley\u2019 in Sarajevo (Picture: AFP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There could be more than 100 \u2018tourists\u2019 who jetted off to the warzone and may be called to give evidence in the trial as prosecutors continue to gather evidence.<\/p>\n