Italian police find significant evidence in homes of "Sarajevo safari" suspects
The Milan prosecutor is investigating four Italians suspected of paying soldiers to kill civilians with sniper fire during the siege of Sarajevo. Police have seized decisive evidence.
Italian police find significant evidence in homes of "Sarajevo safari" suspects
The Milan prosecutor has announced that Italian police have seized "significant" evidence during a search of the home of one of four Italians being investigated for murders in Sarajevo, where people paid to shoot at citizens with sniper rifles during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The suspects allegedly paid substantial sums of money to Bosnian Serb forces in order to kill Sarajevo civilians from their positions during the siege of the city, in which approximately 11,000 people lost their lives. According to prosecutors, among the materials seized are photographs of a 65-year-old man resident in the Alessandria area, pictured with technical equipment and a silencer. The search was carried out on the basis of testimony from his ex-wife and a former partner.
During interrogation, the former partner reported that the suspect had confided to her that he suffered from nightmares because of murders committed in Bosnia in the Nineties.
"He told me that he knew how to fly from Milan and that with him there were some people who would spend the weekend (...) as snipers and shoot at Muslims," she told investigators.
The man had previously exercised his right to remain silent during questioning by magistrates.
The other suspects include an 80-year-old former lorry driver from the Pordenone province, a 64-year-old businessman resident in Brianza, and a person from Tuscany.
Source: 24sata