Road to the maneuvers was shaped like the letter V, making a sharp turn at theīridge over the River Nilgacka. TheĪrchduke was persuaded to drive the shortest way out of the city and to go quickly. General Potiorek, the Austrian Commander, pleaded with Francis Ferdinand to leave the city, as it was seething with rebellion. The cars sped to the Town Hall and the rest of the conspirators did not interfere with them. Several officers riding in his attendance were injured. Presence of mind threw himself back and was uninjured. It hit the side of the car, but Francis Ferdinand with When the car passed Gabrinovic, the compositor, he threw his grenade. The motor cars were driving too fast to make an attempt feasible and in the crowd were many Serbians throwing a grenade would have killed many innocent people. "When Francis Ferdinand and his retinue drove from the station they were allowed to pass the first two conspirators. Both bullets hit home.īorijove Jevtic, one of the conspirators gave this eyewitness account: More amazingly, the royal car stopped right in front of Princip providing him the opportunity to fire two shots. The ceremonies finished, the Royal procession amazingly retraced its steps bringing the Archduke into the range of the leader of the conspiracy, Gavrilo Princip. Unhurt, the Archduke and his wife sped to the reception at City Hall. The six-car procession approached one conspirator, Gabrinovic (or Cabrinovic), who threw his bomb only to see it bounce off the Archduke's car and explode near the following car. Each took a different position, ready to attack the royal car if the opportunity presented itself. Seven conspirators joined the crowd lining the Archduke's route to City Hall. The shots that day in Sarajevo pushed the caldron to the boiling point and beyond. The Balkan Region of Europe entered the twentieth century much as she left it: a caldron of seething political intrigue needing only the slightest increase of heat to boil over into open conflict.
Independent Serbia provided the guns, ammunition and training that made the assassination possible. He envisioned the death of the Archduke as the key that would unlock the shackles binding his people to the Austro-Hungarian Empire.Ī third party, Serbia, figured prominently in the plot. The assassin, 19-year-old Gavrilo Princip burned with the fire of Slavic nationalism. The couple was returning from an official visit to City Hall.
The victims, Archduke Franz Ferdinand - heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and his wife Sophie, were in the Bosnian city in conjunction with Austrian troop exercises nearby. World War One, World War Two, the Cold War and its conclusion all trace their origins to the gunshots that interrupted that summer day. Two bullets fired on a Sarajevo street on a sunny June morning in 1914 set in motion a series of events that shaped the world we live in today.
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