Prosecutors in Milan opened a criminal investigation into allegations that wealthy Italian nationals paid large sums of money to travel to Bosnia during the 1992–1995 siege of Sarajevo to deliberately kill civilians for sport, according to reports in The Guardian and the BBC. Investigators are examining claims of what has been described as “sniper tourism"- an alleged practice in which Italian visitors were transported by Bosnian Serb forces to the hills overlooking Sarajevo, handed rifles and allowed to shoot at unarmed civilians, including women and children, during the height of the conflict. Some reportedly paid up to €100,000 (approx. ₹1 crore).

The Bosnian war, widely considered Europe’s bloodiest conflict since World War II, began in 1992 after Bosnia and Herzegovina declared indep

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