{"id":11466,"date":"2025-11-13T14:00:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T14:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=11466"},"modified":"2025-11-13T14:00:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T14:00:18","slug":"human-safari-rich-tourists-allegedly-paid-91000-to-shoot-civilians-in-sarajevo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=11466","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHuman safari\u201d: Rich tourists allegedly paid $91,000 to shoot civilians in Sarajevo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"105\" data-end=\"174\"><strong data-start=\"105\" data-end=\"174\">Italian Prosecutors Probe \u201cHuman Safari\u201d Claims in Sarajevo Siege<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"176\" data-end=\"425\">Wealthy Europeans and Americans are accused of paying huge sums to the Bosnian Serb army to shoot civilians during the 1992\u20131996 siege of Sarajevo \u2014 the longest of any capital city in modern history, which left over 11,000 dead and 56,000 wounded.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"427\" data-end=\"742\">Italian prosecutors have launched an investigation after journalist Ezio Gavazzeni filed a 17-page complaint alleging that \u201cvery wealthy people\u201d traveled to Sarajevo to kill civilians for sport, paying up to \u20ac100,000. Victims allegedly had \u201cprices\u201d: children cost the most, elderly victims could be shot for free.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"744\" data-end=\"963\">The accused \u201csniper tourists\u201d reportedly came from across Western Europe, Russia, and the U.S., aided by Bosnian Serb forces under Radovan Karad\u017ei\u0107. A 2022 documentary, <em data-start=\"913\" data-end=\"930\">Sarajevo Safari<\/em>, also reported similar claims.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"965\" data-end=\"1104\">Milan\u2019s Carabinieri police, focused on terrorism and organized crime, are helping identify suspects. Bosnia has pledged full cooperation.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1106\" data-end=\"1286\">Some former British soldiers have dismissed the stories as \u201curban myths,\u201d citing logistical difficulties, but survivors and investigators say the evidence merits serious inquiry.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1288\" data-end=\"1381\">\u201cWe must uncover the truth about such cruelty,\u201d said Bosnian Consul in Milan Dag Dumrukcic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italian Prosecutors Probe \u201cHuman Safari\u201d Claims in Sarajevo Siege Wealthy Europeans and Americans are accused of paying huge sums to the Bosnian Serb army to shoot civilians during the 1992\u20131996 siege of Sarajevo \u2014 the longest of any capital city in modern history, which left over 11,000 dead and 56,000 wounded. Italian prosecutors have launched&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=11466\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;\u201cHuman safari\u201d: Rich tourists allegedly paid $91,000 to shoot civilians in Sarajevo&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11467,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11468,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11466\/revisions\/11468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}