Austro-Hungarian authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina imprisoned and extradited approximately 5,500 prominent Serbs, 700 to 2,200 of whom died in prison. Writer Ivo Andrić referred to the violence as the "Sarajevo frenzy of hate." Violent actions against ethnic Serbs were organized not only in Sarajevo but also in many other larger Austro-Hungarian cities in modern-day Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. However, in Sarajevo itself, Austrian authorities encouraged violence against the Serb residents, which resulted in the Anti-Serb riots of Sarajevo, in which Catholic Croats and Bosnian Muslims killed two and damaged numerous Serb-owned buildings. The assassination excessively intensified the existing traditional religion-based ethnic hostilities in Bosnia. On Sunday and Monday, the crowds in Vienna listened to music and drank wine, as if nothing had happened." Escalation of violence in Bosnia Ĭrowds on the streets in the aftermath of the Anti-Serb riots in Sarajevo, 29 June 1914 Zeman later wrote, "the event almost failed to make any impression whatsoever. The reaction among the Austrian people was mild, almost indifferent. With a pistol, Princip shot and killed Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie. About an hour later, when Franz Ferdinand was returning from a visit at the Sarajevo Hospital, the convoy took a wrong turn into a street where Gavrilo Princip by coincidence stood. The other assassins failed to act as the cars drove past them quickly. It injured some people nearby, and Franz Ferdinand's convoy could carry on. Čabrinović threw a grenade at the car, but missed. A group of six assassins ( Cvjetko Popović, Gavrilo Princip, Muhamed Mehmedbašić, Nedeljko Čabrinović, Trifko Grabež, Vaso Čubrilović) from the nationalist group Mlada Bosna, supplied by the Black Hand, had gathered on the street where the Archduke's motorcade would pass. On 28 June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand visited the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo. This picture of the arrest of a suspect in Sarajevo is usually associated with the capture of Gavrilo Princip, although some believe it depicts Ferdinand Behr, a bystander.
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