The two shots he fired from his FN Model 1910 pistol had, in reality, led to the deaths of 16 million people.ĭuring his trial over the assassination, Princip said: "I am a Yugoslav nationalist, aiming for the unification of all Yugoslavs, and I do not care what form of state, but it must be freed from Austria." Unknowingly, the teen from a poor, peasant family who grew up in a remote part of Bosnia, had just started World War I. Hence their need to stop and turn around at the Latin Bridge, outside Schiller's Delicatessan where 18-year-old Gavrilo Princip was waiting with his loaded pistol. The Archduke and his wife decided to visit those injured in the blast instead of continuing with their planned itinerary.īut the motorcade went the wrong way, going the original route instead of the revised one. Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip (second from right) is arrested after the assassination. Rattled by the morning's events, plans changed. Police dragged the man out of the water and he was beaten by the crowd before he was taken into custody. But the pill was old and only made him vomit - and it hadn't rained in a while, so the river was just 13cm deep. It blew under a different car, wounding around 16 people, but killing none and not injuring the Archduke.Ĭabrinovic then popped a cyanide pill and jumped in the Miljacka River for good measure. To start with, his bomb bounced off the car and landed in the street. He was just one of six men lining the motorcade's route, ready to attack.Ĭabrinovic threw bomb, but things didn't go so well for the young Serb.
On the morning of June 28, 1914, amid fairly poor security arrangements, the motorcade transporting the Archduke was attacked by would-be assassin Nedeljko Cabrinovic, a 20-year-old member of the secret society known as the Black Hand which had the previous night conspired to kill the Austrian leader. But a growing Serbian nationalist movement meant that tensions were high.
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