By mistake, however, the first three cars turned onto a side street right where Princip happened to be standing. Security was almost non-existent and apart from a few gendarmes they royal couple was unprotected. Owing to the suppression by Serbia of Apis's confession and of the Salonika trial transcripts historians did not initially link Malobabić closely to the Sarajevo attack. In May, Gavrilo Princip, Trifko Grabez and Nedeljko Cabrinovic traveled to the Serbian capital of Belgrade, where they received six handheld bombs, four semi-automatic pistols and cyanide suicide capsules from members of the so-called Black Hand, a terrorist group with close ties to the Serbian army. [149] By 1914 the "Black Hand" was no longer operating under its constitution but rather as a creature of the Chief of Serbian Military Intelligence, Apis, and its active ranks were composed mostly of Serbian officers loyal to Apis. Governor-General Oskar Potiorek vetoed this suggestion[83] on the grounds that soldiers coming straight from maneuvers would not have the dress uniforms appropriate for such duties. The examination of defendant Veljko Čubrilović (who helped coordinate the transport of the weapons and was a Narodna Odbrana agent) is illustrative of this effort. He had fatally wounded the royal couple and they lay bloody and dying in each other’s arms. "[119] Cabrinović, though, testified that the political views that motivated him to kill Franz Ferdinand were views held in the circles he traveled in within Serbia. [171] The report of this incident was initially sketchy and reported to Emperor Franz-Joseph erroneously as "a considerable skirmish". "[40] During this January 1914 meeting, various possible Austro-Hungarian targets for assassination were discussed, including Franz Ferdinand. Much of what is known about the assassinations comes from these two trials and related records. [14], The adult defendants, facing the death penalty, portrayed themselves at trial as unwilling participants in the conspiracy. Thinking the police might be after him, he threw his weapons (a dagger and a bottle of poison) out the train window. [25] Governor Oskar Potiorek met the party at Sarajevo station. It then sent Serbia an ultimatum, worded in a way that made acceptance unlikely. The terrorist group was called the ‘Black Hand’ and had the support of the Serbian military. After practicing with their pistols in a Belgrade park, the three men journeyed back to Bosnia-Herzegovina, receiving help from Black Hand associates to smuggle their weapons across the border. "[161] Werchovsky admitted the involvement of his office and then fell silent on the subject.[162]. The Serbian military conspiracy was organized by Chief of Serbian Military Intelligence Dragutin Dimitrijević with the assistance of Major Vojislav Tankosić and spy Rade Malobabić. After Serbia's victory over Bulgaria in Macedonia in the Balkan Wars, the "Black Hand" became moribund because of the death of its president and the failure to replace him, an inactive secretary, casualties, broken links between its three-man cells, and a drying up of funding. Agreement in principle was quickly reached, but delivery of the weapons was delayed for more than a month. [118] Princip stated under cross examination: "I am a Yugoslav nationalist and I believe in unification of all South Slavs in whatever form of state and that it be free of Austria." [30], On the morning of 28 June 1914, Franz Ferdinand and his party proceeded by train from Ilidža Spa to Sarajevo. At one point, Ciganović told Grabež: "Nothing doing, the old Emperor is ill and the Heir Apparent [sic] will not go to Bosnia. Čabrinović moved back into his father's house in Sarajevo. On 28 June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, visited Sarajevo. [35], Danilo Ilić was a Bosnian Orthodox Serb. Under this same treaty, the Great Powers (Austria-Hungary, the United Kingdom, France, the German Empire, Italy, and the Russian Empire) gave official recognition to the Principality of Serbia as a fully sovereign state, which four years later transformed into a kingdom under Prince Milan IV Obrenović who thus became King Milan I of Serbia. [110] The first anti-Serb demonstrations, led by the followers of Josip Frank, were organized in early evening of 28 June in Zagreb. Princip, a slender, 19-year-old Serbian army reject, later admitted to killing Ferdinand but said he had not meant to hit Sophie. Princip explained to the court he had already read about Franz Ferdinand's upcoming visit in German papers. According to Serbian Military Attaché to Vienna, Colonel Lesanin, Ambassador Jovanović, spoke to Bilinski and "...stressed in general terms the risks the Archduke heir apparent [sic] might run from the inflamed public opinion in Bosnia and Serbia. '"[139] The Austro-Hungarian Finance Minister took no action based on Jovanović's remarks. In late 1916 and early 1917, secret peace talks took place between Austria-Hungary and France. Cabrinovic jumped into the mostly dry riverbed and made a half-hearted attempt to kill himself before being apprehended. [16] In Bosnia-Herzegovina, there existed a local revolutionary movement known as Young Bosnia, whose goal was the dissolution of Austria-Hungary. The Black Hand had several assassins positioned along the route. followed by six or seven utterances of "It is nothing," in response to Harrach's inquiry as to Franz Ferdinand's injury. On a whim, the couple drove in one evening to check out Sarajevo’s bazaars. An alternative theory to the Sarajevo attack being a Serbian Military Intelligence Operation was that it was a "Black Hand" operation.

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