Footage allegedly shows an envelope containing the documents being accidentally dropped into the trash at a Sarajevo hotel reception desk
Dozens of Israeli tourists were stranded in Bosnia and Herzegovina on Sunday after their passports were thrown away in what a local newspaper described as an accident.
The CRNA Hronika news site posted footage on Sunday it said it obtained from a hotel lobby in Sarajevo showing a large envelope dropping from a filing cabinet into what looks to be a waste bin at a reception desk while an employee sorts papers nearby, but without a line of sight to the envelope. The time stamp on the video says it was captured at 1 a.m. on Saturday.
The news site said the footage was of the passports of 47 Israeli tourists ending up in the trash bin, before they were taken away to a landfill. Efforts to retrieve them have thus far been to no avail.