Man in his 80s is quizzed over ‘human safari’ hunting trips in Sarajevo

Prosecutors in Italy are looking into the decades-old crimes (Picture: AFP)

An 80-year-old Italian man has been arrested on suspicion of paying money to shoot fleeing residents of Sarajevo in the 1990s.

In November, prosecutors in Milan opened an investigation into Italian tourists accused of paying £70,000 to join the ‘human safari’, shooting and killing innocent Bosnians.

Prosecutors allege these ‘tourists’, many of whom had ties to far-right circles, paid the Bosnian Serb army for weekend trips to Sarajevo...