Italy claims wealthy visitors paid up to $100,000 to kill civilians during the Bosnian War.

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Five people were named in Gavazzeni's lawsuit as having taken part in these alleged crimes, but the Milan public prosecutor's office is searching for additional potential suspects.

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Prosecutors in Milan, Italy have opened up an investigation into tourists who paid $100,00 to shoot people during the siege of Sarajevo in the early 1990s. It's claimed to have happened within 1992 and 1996. Journalist, Eli Gavazzeni made a 17-page complaint on evidence of wealthy Italians sniping tourism during the Bosnian war. Looking into Gavazzeni's lawsuit he identified five people. Gavazzeni said to Italian newspaper that “at least a hundred” people took part in these safaris." The “sniper tourists” mentioned in were said to have met in the northern Italian city of Trieste. Then, they would travel to Belgrade, Serbia. They met soldiers of the Bosnian Serb army of Radovan Karadžić and joined them at the hills surrounding Sarajevo. (Keep in mind, Karadžić was later convicted of genocide.)

It is alleged that the people who participated were given a "price list" for different targets. Elderly were said to able to be shot for free, women and men costing more, and children being the most expensive. 

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