An attacker who fired a crossbow at a police officer guarding the Israeli embassy in Belgrade was shot and killed on Saturday in what Inside Minister Ivica Dacic known as a terrorist assault towards Serbia.
The policeman is in a life-threatening situation and is present process surgical procedure, Serbian information company Tanjug quoted Dacic as saying. No embassy workers had been wounded, the Israeli international ministry mentioned.
Dacic mentioned the police officer who was attacked was hit within the neck with an arrow and fired a number of pictures on the attacker, killing him.
“It is a terrorist assault towards Serbia,” he mentioned within the assertion carried by Tanjug.
He mentioned that a number of individuals believed to have been linked to the incident had been arrested.
“There are some indications that they (these arrested) are already recognized to safety companies and we’re speaking in regards to the Wahhabi organisation, however that’s not confirmed,” Dacic mentioned, referring to a strict college of Islam.
Israel’s international ministry mentioned that there had been “an tried terrorist assault within the neighborhood of the Israeli embassy in Belgrade”.
“The embassy is closed and no worker of the embassy was injured. The circumstances of the incident are being investigated,” its assertion mentioned.
Israel-linked establishments all over the world have been on excessive alert for assaults and protests since Israel launched its conflict to eradicate Hamas within the Palestinian enclave of Gaza, after the Islamist militant group led lethal assaults on southern Israel on October 7, 2023.
The police officer was in a guard home and the attacker had approached him a number of occasions asking him the place a museum was. He carried a bag from which at one level he took the crossbow and shot the guard, Dacic mentioned.
Police investigators in white forensic fits surrounded the physique of the suspect on the road outdoors the constructing, which was swarmed with police automobiles.
In 2009, a Serbian court docket sentenced 4 Muslims, followers of the puritanical Sunni Wahhabi sect, to jail for plotting to assault a soccer stadium in a southern city of Novi Pazar, the capital of Serbia’s Sandzak area, the place the vast majority of the inhabitants are average Muslims.
