In the investigation of the so-called “weekend snipers” in Sarajevo\u2014allegedly paid to kill, including women, the elderly, and children, during the siege of the city by Bosnian Serb forces between 1992 and 1995\u2014the first murder suspect has emerged, ANSA reported today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to information obtained during the investigation conducted by the Carabinieri Special Operations Group (ROS), under the coordination of public prosecutor Alessandro Gobis at the Milan Prosecutor\u2019s Office led by Marcello Viola, an 80-year-old former truck driver from the province of Pordenone has been summoned for questioning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Italian daily Il Giorno<\/em> reports that the suspect is a former truck driver who worked for a metal processing company. According to the Milan Prosecutor\u2019s Office, he is accused of “in complicity with other as-yet-unknown persons” causing the deaths of unarmed civilians\u2014including women, the elderly, and children\u2014by shooting with precision rifles from the hills around Sarajevo between 1992 and 1995. The crime has been classified as “murder with base motives.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n The newspaper states that the man allegedly boasted to others that he went on \u201chuman hunts\u201d in Sarajevo during that period, based on testimonies collected during the investigation. Using witness statements recorded during interrogations, investigators and prosecutors identified the 80-year-old and decided to register him as a suspect for deliberate, continuous killings, i.e., multiple episodes, and summoned him to the Milan Prosecutor\u2019s Office on February 9.<\/p>\n\n\n\nREAD MORE:<\/mark><\/h4>\n\n\n\n