Renowned Serbian lawyer: There is ample evidence that Vučić was part of "sniper tourism" in Sarajevo

2025-11-16 22:47:30Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

Serbian lawyer Cedomir Stojkovic has presented some evidence that he says proves that the current president of Serbia, Aleksandar Vu?i?, was part of "sniper tourism" during the siege of Sarajevo. 

Stojkovic posted on social media a statement Vu?i? made in 1994 to the newspaper "Duga" in which he said: "I went to Serbian Sarajevo as a volunteer. I was in the Jewish cemetery for a while." Stojkovic also posted a video of Vu?i?. 

He said that the Jewish cemetery is currently being mentioned as the place where "tourists" were brought by Radovan Karadzic's army from Belgrade to kill civilians with snipers, in what has been called "sniper tourism." 

"This was happening exactly when Vu?i?, according to his own account, was at war there," Stojkovic wrote. 

He said that other evidence is Vojislav Seselj's statement during the trial in The Hague that "Vu?i? had volunteered with Slavko Aleksi? at the Jewish cemetery." 

Stojkovic said it is evidence that this "sniper safari", paying to kill civilians, was taking place at a time when Aleksic was running that area and Vucic was under his command. 

He also said that there is footage where Vucic is seen with what appears to be a sniper. He says the video is from 1993 and that he posted that video. 

Prosecutors in Milan have opened an investigation into Italians who allegedly paid members of the Bosnian Serb army to go to Sarajevo so they could kill citizens during the four-year siege of the city in the 1990s.

More than 10,000 people were killed in Sarajevo by constant shelling and sniper attacks between 1992 and 1996, in what was the longest siege in modern history, after Bosnia and Herzegovina declared independence from Yugoslavia.

The investigation began with a legal complaint filed by Ezio Gavazzeni, a Milan-based writer, who gathered evidence on the allegations, as well as a report sent to prosecutors by the former mayor of Sarajevo, Benjamina Karic.

Gavazzeni said he first read reports about "suspected tourist snipers" in the Italian press in the 1990s, but it was only after watching "Sarajevo Safari," a 2022 documentary by Slovenian director Miran Zupani?, that he began to investigate further.

In the documentary, a former Serbian soldier and a contractor claimed that groups of Westerners were shooting civilians from the hills around Sarajevo. Their claims have been vehemently denied by Serbian war veterans.

“'Sarajevo Safari' was the starting point,” Gavazzeni said.

"I began a correspondence with the director and from there I expanded my investigation until I gathered enough material to present to the Milan prosecutors," he added.

Gavazzeni claims that many Italians are suspected of being involved, without giving a figure.

“There were Germans, French, English… people from all the Western countries who paid huge sums of money to be taken there to shoot civilians.”

"There were no political or religious motives. They were wealthy people who went there for entertainment and personal pleasure. We're talking about people who love guns and who maybe go to shooting ranges or on safari in Africa," he said.

He claims that the Italian suspects met in the northern city of Trieste and traveled to Belgrade, from where Bosnian Serb soldiers escorted them to the hills of Sarajevo. 

"There was a traffic of war tourists who went there to shoot people," he said. 

Gavazenni added that he had identified some of the Italian individuals suspected of being involved and who are expected to be questioned by prosecutors in the coming weeks.


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