The Prosecutor’s Office in Milan is conducting an investigation into the so-called to “weekend snipers”, Italians who, during the siege of Sarajevo between 1992 and 1995, traveled to Bosnia and Herzegovina to shoot civilians, including women, the elderly and children, for fun.
So far, the suspect is the 80-year-old truck driver from San Vito al Tagliamento, Giuseppe Vegnaduzzo, who will be questioned in Milan on Monday on suspicion of premeditated murder, writes Il Gazzettino. His fellow citizens are shocked by the fact that their neighbor is under investigation.
“We are ashamed of him,” say many, while others describe him as a “good man”.
According to the Italian media, the investigation could also include other persons, a banker from Trieste, another 90-year-old man from Carnia, and men from Turin and Milan. The list of suspects could be further expanded, as numerous witnesses came forward after the report filed by writer and researcher Ezio Gavazzeni, relaying stories of people who boasted of “manhunting” or spoke of “horror safaris”.
The investigation is being conducted by the ROS carabinieri under the supervision of prosecutor Alessandro Gobbis and chief prosecutor Marcello Viola, and the focus is on people from northern and central Italy who allegedly went to BiH for “tourist shooting”.
Ex-soldier Marco Palmeri also expressed his indignation, saying that he was furious about the fact that people from his town also went to BiH to “hunt for people”, to kill civilians for fun.
