We always knew the siege of Sarajevo was hell. We did not know there might have been rich a**hats flying in for the weekend to treat it like a hunting trip. Italian investigators are now digging into claims that gun tourists paid tens of thousands to sit in the hills and pick off civilians for fun.

An investigation has been launched into claims that gun enthusiasts and far-Right extremists travelled to the war-torn city in the 1990s with sniper rifles to pick off terrified Bosnians "for fun".

The foreigners, from Italy, the US, Russia and elsewhere, are accused of paying Serbian forces to take part in the shooting spree during the Bosnian War.

They were allegedly motivated by sympathy for the Serbian cause, sheer bloodthirstiness or a combination of the two, investigators say.

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