Nov. 12 (UPI) -- Prosecutors in Milan, Italy, are looking into claims that Italians and others paid money to shoot and kill civilians in Bosnia-Herzegovina during the Bosnian war in the early 1990s.
The investigation was launched after Italian journalist Ezio Gavazzeni provided the Milan prosecutors' office with a 17-page report claiming that wealthy individuals paid to participate in "sniper safaris" in Sarajevo, the BBC reported on Wednesday.
Gavazzeni claimed about 100 "very wealthy people" had "paid to be able to kill defenseless civilians" in Sarajevo while positioned in hilly locations controlled by Serbs.
Sarajevo was besieged by Serbian forces for four years, during which more than 11,000 people died after the former nation of Yugoslavia descended into civil war.
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