An 80-year-old Italian man is being investigated for alleged involvement in war crimes during the siege of Sarajevo in the 1990s. Prosecutors in Milan say he paid members of the Bosnian Serb army to take foreigners to Sarajevo to shoot civilians. The man, a former truck driver from Veneto, faces charges of aggravated murder, a source told the Guardian. He is the first suspect named in the probe since it began in November. Reports say he boasted about "conducting a manhunt." More than 10,000 people died in Sarajevo between 1992 and 1996. The city was under siege in the longest in modern history. Snipers were feared for shooting people randomly on the streets, including children. The investigation points to groups of foreigners, called "sniper tourists," who paid large sums for trips to Sarajevo hills to shoot civilians. These payments allegedly went to soldiers loyal to Radovan Karadžić, the Bosnian Serb leader convicted of genocide and crimes against humanity. The probe started after Milan writer Ezio Gavazzeni filed a complaint. He was motivated by seeing the 2022 documentary Sarajevo Safari. The film shows a former Serbian soldier confirming groups of Westerners shot civilians for fun. Serbian war veterans strongly deny these claims. Gavazzeni told the Guardian that these tourists gathered in Trieste, traveled to Belgrade, then were taken to the Sarajevo hills by Bosnian Serb soldiers. He called the acts "an indifference towards evil." One famous sniper death was of couple Bošco Brkić and Admira Ismić, who were killed in 1993 trying to cross a bridge. Their bodies lay in no man’s land for days. Photos of their deaths became a strong symbol of the war’s cruelty.