The event occurred in Belgrade, the capital of the country. The authorities described it as a terrorist act “directed against the Serbian state and a member of the gendarmerie.”
A Serbian police killed a person this Saturday after being attacked with a crossbow Front of Israeli embassy in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. He Minister of the Interior, Ivica Dacicpointed out that It was a “terrorist act.”
The incident occurred this morning when a man, whose identity is being determined, shot a member of the gendarmerie, who was on duty in front of the embassy, with a crossbow. The security agent, who was wounded in the neck, used “a weapon in legitimate defense,” indicates the statement released by the ministry.
The attacker had approached the police officer several times to ask for directions to a museum. In one of those interactions, he pulled out the crossbow from a bag he was carrying and shot the guard, according to reports.
The attacker “died from his wounds,” the official report of the incident added.“This is a terrorist attack against Serbia,” he said. the ministry said in the statement, adding that several people allegedly linked to the incident were arrested.
“There are some indications that they are already known to the security services and we are talking about the Wahhabi organisation, but that is not confirmed,” said the minister, referring to a strict school of Islam.
He Serbian Prime Minister Milos Vucevicalso spoke out after the incident and condemned the ““atrocious terrorist act.” “This was an act of madness, which cannot be attributed to any religion or nation. It is the crime of an individual,” he told the local news agency.
Source: Ambito
