Okay, Chelsea, just brace yourself for this story
because it is fucking bleak. Oh, fuck. Hi, everybody.
Welcome to the end of the year. This story comes
from The Guardian, posted on November 11th, 2025,
written by Angela Giuffrida and Kim Wilshire.
Article title, Milan prosecutors investigate
alleged sniper tourism during Bosnian war. What?
No. why are you reading this article yeah Prosecutors
in Milan have opened an investigation into Italians
who allegedly paid members of the Bosnian Serb
army for trips to Sarajevo so that they could
kill citizens during the four -year siege of
the city in the 1990s. This is fucking bleak.
More than 10 ,000 people were killed in Sarajevo
by constant shelling and sniper fire between
1992 and 1996 in what was the longest siege in
modern history after Bosnia and Herzegovina declared
independence from Yugoslavia. No. No. are alleged
to have participated in the massacre after paying
large sums of money to soldiers belonging to
the army of Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian
Serb leader who in 2016 was found guilty of genocide
and other crimes against humanity to be transported
to the hills surrounding Sarajevo so that they
could shoot at the population for pleasure. Sarajevo
is a basin surrounded by mountains which made
cutting it off and attacking it particularly
easy. Milan prosecutors, led by Alessandro Gobbi,
launched an investigation aimed at identifying
the Italians involved on charges of voluntary
murder aggravated by cruelty and abject motives.
The investigation originated from a legal complaint
submitted by Ezio Gavazzini, a Milan -based writer
who gathered evidence on the allegations as well
as a report sent to the prosecutors by the former
mayor of Sarajevo, Benjamin Carrick. Gavazzini
said he had first read reports about the alleged
sniper tourists in the Italian press in the 90s,
but it was not until he watched Sarajevo Safari,
a 2022 documentary by the Slovenian director
Maran Zupanek, that he began to investigate further.
In the documentary, a former Serb soldier and
a contractor claimed that groups of Westerners
would shoot at the civilian population from the
hills around Sarajevo. Its claims have been vehemently
denied by Serbian war veterans. Sarajevo Safari
was the starting point. I began a correspondence
with the director and from there expanded my
investigation until I collected enough material
to present to the Milan prosecutors, end quote,
said Gavazzini. Gavazzini claimed, quote, many,
many, many Italians, end quote. were alleged
to have been involved without providing a figure.
Quote, there were Germans, French, English, dot,
dot, dot, people from all Western countries who
paid large sums of money to be taken there to
shoot civilians. End quote. Again, quote, there
were no political or religious motivations. They
were rich people who went there for fun and personal
satisfaction. We're talking about people who
love guns, who perhaps go to shooting ranges
or on safari in Africa. End quote. He claimed
the Italian suspects would meet in the northern
city of Trieste and travel to Belgrade, from
where the Bosnian Serb soldiers would accompany
them to the hills of Sarajevo. Quote, there was
a traffic of war tourists who went there to shoot
people. I call it an indifference towards evil.
End quote. Gabazzini said he had identified some
of the Italian individuals alleged to have been
involved and who are expected to be questioned
by the prosecutors in the coming weeks. Probably
the most high -profile deaths by sniper fire
were Bosko Burkic and Admira Izmic, a couple
documented in the film Romeo and Juliet and Sarajevo,
who were killed by a sniper in 1993 while trying
to cross a bridge. Their bodies remained in no
man's land between the Bosnian and Bosnian Serb
positions for several days. Photographs were
published widely and became symbolic of the randomness
and inhumanity of the war. the main street running
into sarajevo messa selimovic boulevard was nicknamed
sniper alley because it became extremely dangerous
but could not be avoided as it was the way to
sarajevo airport trams and buses had their windows
shot out and all around there were sniper warning
signs Nicola Brigida, a lawyer who helped Gavazzini
prepare this case, said, quote, the evidence
accumulated after a long investigation by Gavazzini
is well substantiated and could lead to serious
investigations to identify the culprits. There
is also the report from the former Sarah Havel
mayor, end quote, end of article. I can't even
wrap my mind around how evil that is. I just,
we got to agree with the orcas at this point.
There is no other way to get. To the point. I
just, I know there's good in this world, but
this is also very, very evil. And it reminds
me of a horror movie of, you know, those like
billionaires. Oh, it's hostile. That's exactly
it. And doesn't it just make you think like,
yeah, it probably is the people who paid thousands
of millions of dollars. I don't know how much
to go shoot endangered animals in Africa. Yeah.
I just... That hold value in something like that.
And purely speculation at this point, just to
cover my ass in case anything ever comes out
of this. The Ukrainian -Russian war, you've got
to wonder if anything similar is happening in
that. You know, it wouldn't even be something
that if I... You said, just make something up
that you think is happening in this world that
is so evil. I wouldn't even come up with something
like this. In my imagination. Like I can't even
wrap my head around something like this. And
while I'm cursing you right now for bringing
this article to light, I also... Can you believe
that you... Like I don't know how many people
have heard about this. This was posted about
a month... I haven't heard about it. Three weeks
ago from us reading this now. Thank you for sharing
it because I haven't heard about that. And while
it will haunt my dreams, I appreciate that we're
putting it out there as... Something. Yeah. Ah,
it's so dark. Oh my God. But don't worry. You
guys got 48 hours and a new, a whole new year
to go into. And maybe this can shape your new
year's resolutions. I don't know. Maybe a positive
out of this. Yeah. Don't be one of these guys.
We have faith in you that these guys are not
listening to us. Yeah. Anyhow. Bye. Bye.