Princip tried to commit suicide by the same cyanide that didn’t work for his fellow conspirator and the pistol he then lifted to his head were wrestled from his hands by a bystander before he could shoot himself. No Death Sentence for Franz Ferdinand’s Killer During his life in Sarajevo, the Austro-Hungarian government implemented martial law, seized all schools and prohibited many Serbian societies, which made Princip very bitter. Although Princip was initially rejected when trying to volunteer for the Black Hand Servian guerilla band, he managed to get some military training through the Serbian Chetnik Organization. His parents were Christian peasants (serfs) and Gavrilo’s brother paid for his education, but he was expelled from school in 1912 for his involvement in a Demonstration against theĪustro-Hungarian authority. He was born to a poor family and named “Gavrilo” after the Arch Angel Gabriel because his parents hoped that it would help the sickly baby to survive (they had lost six infants previously). Princip was a Yugoslav nationalist who believed that the Yugoslavs had to be united and freed from Austria. The pregnant Sophie had instinctively thrown her body over that of her husband and was also killed. Princip was still loitering in the area and spotted the car, walked up to it and shot Franz Ferdinand twice, point blank from a 1.5m distance. Later on the day, the Archduke decided to go visit the wounded officer at the hospital and the driver took the wrong route and tried to reverse as he realized his mistake. The procession was stopped and Cabrinovic was arrested after a failed attempt at suicide (he swallowed an expired cyanide pill and jumped in the river). Nedjelko Cabrinovic threw a hand grenade at the car, but it rolled off and instead wounded some bystanders and an officer in one of the other cars in the procession. The members of the group were posted all along the route on which the Archduke and his wife would tour Sarajevo in an open car (with almost no security). The AssassinationĪlthough the group had carefully planned the assassination, things went wrong, their plans were foiled and the assassination almost didn’t take place. The person who however ended up killing Franz Ferdinand, partly by chance, was Gavrilo Princip. Danilo Ilic recruited Vaso Čubrilović, Muhamed Mehmedbašić, Cvjetko Popović, Trifko Grabež, Nedeljko Čabrinović and Gavrilo Princip and coordinated the assasination. The assassination was planned by a group of six people (one Bosniak and five Serbs) that were part of the Young Bosnia Movement. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Sophie, was the event that started World War 1.
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