Journalists aiming to expose the horrific war crimes that were committed during the brutal almost four-year siege of Sarajevo have now claimed that a European royal was involved.The shocking claim that Italian and other European citizens travelled to Bosnia during the 90s to take part in ‘sniper safaris’ first surfaced at the end of last year thanks to journalist and novelist Ezio Gavazzeni.He suggests that wealthy people would pay large sums for the opportunity to shoot and kill defenceless citizens alongside Serbian snipers during the siege, which saw over 11,000 people killed.

Italian officers were investigating the claims made by Gavazzeni, but now a new book, Pay and Shoot, by the Croatian journalist Domagoj Margetic has gone a step further by sharing more details of the alleged safaris and alleging that a member of a European royal family even took part.Margetic claims he was given documents by Bosnian intelligence officer Nedzad Ugljen before he was shot dead in 1996The documents claimed that the disturbed visitors would pay 80,000 marks, which was around £35k at the time, to their Serbian handlers for the opportunity to kill middle-aged men or women, while it would cost 95,000 marks (£42k) to shoot young women and 110,000 marks (£49k) to shoot pregnant women..