German journalist and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung columnist Michael Martens said today that it comes as no surprise that Italian prosecutors do not have enough evidence to file charges in the so-called “Sarajevo Safari” case, stressing that “the whole story is a bad joke”.
“Surprise, surprise: Reuters reports that prosecutors in Italy ‘currently’ do not have sufficient evidence to bring a case to trial over the alleged ‘Sarajevo Safari’ (wealthy tourists killing people for entertainment). Of course they don’t. The whole story is a bad joke,” Martens wrote on his account on X.
In his post, Martens shared a Reuters report citing a source familiar with the case, who said that Italian prosecutors investigating allegations of so-called “sniper tourism” in Sarajevo during the wars of the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s currently lack sufficient evidence to request a trial against the suspects.
According to the source, prosecutors presently possess only circumstantial indications rather than hard evidence.
The source added that a separate line of investigation concerning an alleged secret network in Milan that supposedly organized such trips during the 1990s has so far produced no results.
As part of an investigation being conducted by the Milan Prosecutor’s Office, five individuals are under investigation on suspicion that Italians and other foreign nationals paid money in order to shoot at civilians during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The investigation was launched last year after journalist and writer Ezio Gavazzeni filed a criminal complaint regarding claims that wealthy foreigners travelled to Sarajevo during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina to take part in organized shootings targeting civilians.
Source: Glas Srpske
