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'Sarajevo Snipers,' prosecutors reviewing how to summon Bosnian witness

(ANSA) - MILAN, 14 FEB - Milan prosecutors investigating the case of the "weekend snipers" in Sarajevo are assessing how to summon, as a witness, Aleksandar Licanin, who at the time was a volunteer in a Serb-Bosnian armored unit and who revealed to the British press many details about the alleged "human safaris." Prosecutor Alessandro Gobbis, who, along with chief prosecutor Marcello Viola, is coordinating the investigation—an elderly man from the province of Pordenone is under investigation for aggravated murder—should, before long, question the 63-year-old to take his statement. "I want the truth to come out. I'm ready to stand up and tell the Italian magistrates what I know," the man said in an interview published by The Times and picked up by other media. The "killer tourists," he said, "were shooting at women, children and the elderly. They were out of control." Housed in a complex near the Jewish cemetery, according to Licanin, the foreigners allegedly handed over between 500 and 1,000 Deutsche marks to obtain a sniper position in tall buildings. "They wore expensive leather jackets, and I was told they were Italian, German and British," he said, also giving the first and last name of the person who was their point of contact. "They helped them find targets, and shooting from the cemetery was a clean shot: they had everything. I remember a Romanian woman who must have killed more than ten people." After what Licanin calls "the hunt," the snipers, for fun, "celebrated the killing of people by eating and drinking. They were true sadists." After the war, Licanin, who still lives in Bosnia, got married and found work as a lumberjack. "My wife says I still have nightmares, even if I don't remember them in the morning," he concluded. "The foreigners who came to Sarajevo had sick minds. I bet they don't have nightmares." Milan prosecutors, meanwhile, after Monday's questioning of the truck driver—who denied everything—are expected to question other suspects as well. (ANSA).

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