![]() ![]() If Austria were to invade Serbia Russia, Britain and France would obviously take the side of Serbia, but that would mean fighting the Germans, something the British didn't want to do. Britain took note of this, and quickly made an alliance with Germany after the attacks in Sarajevo, because the Prime minister and the Queen interpreted it not as a mass shooting, but as a plot against the Austrian empire. The assassination completely failed and all involved were either dead or in jail.Īs Germany's power grew ever since the unification of the country in 1871, the balance of power in Europe shifted heavily towards the Germans. Many did get hurt and died in the assassination attempt, but it was written off by the police as a mass shooting rather than an assassination attempt as to not cause panic. ![]() When the other assassins had also learned that the assassination had completely failed, they either shot themselves and died or went on a shooting rampage and then died. Soon, everyone including Ferdinand and his wife found Princip dead, and believed that he committed suicide. Soon, the Austrians including Franz heard what happened and rush to see. Princip shot himself on the spot and fell to the ground. When he ran out the door, the archduke was already gone. When the archduke passed by the store, Princip was shocked and did not have time to draw his gun and fire. The cashier glanced at his pistol, raised an eyebrow but did not object, and Princip sat down to eat his sandwich in the store. Having learned what had happened, Princip went to get a sandwich in a small eatery. The archduke arrived at the town hall and gave his speech along with the mayor, and then got in the car for a small tour of the city. The authorities dragged him out and he was beaten severely before being taken into custody. Čabrinović became hysterical, took the old cyanide pill that only made him very uncomfortable and jumped in the river that was a few inches deep. When the archduke's party passed Čabrinović, he threw a bomb at the lot, but the bomb bounced off the side of the car the archduke was riding in and the timed bomb exploded in a crowd. All of the assassins except Čabrinović, failed to act. ![]() In the morning of that day, the assassins, Cvjetko Popović, Gavrilo Princip, Trifun Grabež, Vaso Čubrilović, Mehmedbašić and Čabrinović arrived in the city with their bombs and their pistols, ready to kill as many Austrian officials as possible before taking cyanide pills and dying. On June 28 1914, tragedy gripped the people of Sarajevo as they mourned the deaths of dozens of people killed in an attempt to assassinate archduke Franz Ferdinand.
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