Nicholas Ribic came from Canada on a Safari to hunt people in Sarajevo!

(Patria) - Canadian citizen Nickolas Nick Ribić came on a “safari in Sarajevo” to kill people during the aggression against BiH. This was confirmed by protected witness C-017 at the trial of Slobodan Milošević before the Hague Tribunal. The protected witness said this during the public part of the trial on June 11, 2003.

“He came on a safari, to hunt people,” said the protected witness in the Milošević case after being asked in the courtroom of the Hague Tribunal whether he knew Nikola Ribić, reports Istraga.ba

“Did you receive information regarding the activities of a certain Nikola Ribić?” was the question posed by prosecutor Hildegard Uertz-Retzlaff to the protected witness.

“Yes. Nikola Ribić, also known as Canada, was a member of the White Wolves,” said protected witness C-017.

“You say that Ribić Nikola, known by the nickname Canada, was an emigrant who came from Canada?” was another question from prosecutor Hildegard Uertz-Retzlaff.

“Not an emigrant. He came on a safari, to hunt people,” replied witness C-017.

“He came from Canada?” asked the prosecutor.

“Yes, as a volunteer,” said C-017.

“So, he lived in Canada?”

“Yes,” replied the witness.

“So, he came directly from Canada to Bosnia, didn’t he?”

“Yes,” repeated C-017.

“And where did he fight? In which unit?” was the question.

“I found him in the White Wolves unit. I don’t know where he was before that,” said the witness.



Nicholas Ribic was born in Canada in 1974, into a family of Serbian immigrants. His name became known to the public in 1995. Namely, during NATO airstrikes on positions of the Army of Republika Srpska, he captured and then used UNPROFOR members as human shields. This was also discussed in the Hague courtroom.

“And the other person is someone I had met earlier in Pale at least twice, he was a Canadian of Serbian origin. His name was Nicholas Ribic and he was wearing a full Bosnian Serb uniform with a helmet and was armed with an AK-47 rifle,” testified in the Hague courtroom in 2011 in the context of the capture of UNPROFOR members.

According to documents from Canadian authorities, Nicholas Nikola Ribić (born 1974), a former resident of Edmonton, Alberta. He was charged by Canadian authorities for the kidnapping of UNPROFOR soldiers. However, he fled Canada. He was arrested on February 20, 1999, in Mainz, Germany, and then charged as a terrorist as part of the Bosnian Serb army that captured United Nations peacekeepers and used them as human shields against NATO airstrikes in 1995. The Canadian Court of Appeal upheld the conviction of Nicholas Ribic for taking three United Nations peacekeepers hostage in Bosnia in 1995. Three judges of the Ontario Court of Appeal unanimously rejected in Toronto any claim by Nicholas Ribić that he was merely following orders on May 26, 1995, when three unarmed UN peacekeepers at a Serbian ammunition depot were taken hostage and used as human shields in Pale, near Sarajevo. Ribić was sentenced in 2005 to three years in prison for the kidnapping of UNPROFOR soldiers.

More than three decades after the siege of Sarajevo, the Italian prosecutor’s office opened an investigation that could shed light on one of the darkest and least known aspects of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina: the story of “sniper tourists,” foreign nationals who allegedly paid to shoot at civilians in the besieged city. The investigation was launched after a report by Italian journalist and writer Ezio Gavazzeni, who submitted documents and testimonies collected during years of research to the Milan prosecutor’s office. He told N1 that the documentary film Sarajevo Safari was the starting point of his work.

The investigation is currently being conducted against unknown perpetrators, but the Italian judiciary could come up with specific names.

“I had contacts with people, including a member of the BiH intelligence services during the siege of Sarajevo, who testified about groups of Italian ‘sniper tourists’ who came to the hills to shoot at civilians,” claims Gavazzeni.

War reporter for Sarajevo’s Oslobođenje, Šefko Hodžić, also wrote about the Sarajevo Safari in his war diary. In his diary, he noted that this information was conveyed to him by Mustafa Hajrulahović Talijan, a high-ranking officer of the Army of the Republic of BiH.