Even so, in Vienna, Sophie still has no right to sit in the Dagong's carriage with her husband, nor can she sit in the royal box of the theater with Dagong. Even during the court ceremony, when Sophie went in, the folding door of the palace door was only half open! Now traveling together, Sophie can enjoy the same courtesy as the Grand Duke in Bosnia, far from the imperial capital.
But the Archduke may forget that June 28th is not only his wedding anniversary, but also the sacred "Santovito Day" of Serbs. 1389 On this day, in the epic battle of Kosovo, Osman Sultan Murad I was assassinated in his own camp by Serbian knight Milos Obilic who pretended to surrender. The defeated Serbia spent more than four centuries under Turkish rule. Archduke Ferdinand visited Bosnia and Herzegovina with a large number of Serbs on this day, which was regarded as a blatant provocation by Serb racists.
In the eyes of the mafia, an extremist organization in Serbia with the slogan of "independence or death", Dagong has become the representative of "Austrian imperialism". Sadly, Archduke Ferdinand actually sympathized with Slavs in the Empire and tended to give them more autonomy. The mafia doesn't know this. Ferdinand's status-not his political position-makes him a symbol of Serbia's enemies.
This morning, in Sarajevo (the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina), Dagong and his wife got on the bus together, and the mayor of Sarajevo's car drove ahead. The whole city is immersed in the sea of flowers. Citizens dressed in festive costumes warmly welcomed the arrival of the Crown Prince, and at least seven "mafia" assassins were mixed in the crowd. Their goal is to send the Archduke to God.
/kloc-around 0/0, when the motorcade passed a bridge in the city center, the first killer shot a bomb at Dagong's car, but the aim was not good, and only a few passers-by were injured. Archduke Ferdinand was very calm about the sudden assassination. "This guy is mentally ill. Let's continue to follow the procedure." When the injured were taken to the hospital, Dagong's motorcade continued to drive to Sarajevo City Hall. After the mayor delivered a disgusting welcome speech, Dagong insisted on visiting the wounded in the military hospital. So the motorcade changed its plan and went straight to the hospital. However, the driver of the mayor's first car didn't know about the change of plan, so he drove to the National Museum as planned.
The driver of Dagong's second car didn't know the plan had changed, so he followed the first car and took the wrong route. When I finally realized that I had stopped in the wrong direction and was about to reverse the car, Dagong's car just stopped in front of Principe, the most determined of the seven assassins in the mafia that day. The 19-year-old Serb quickly took out a small pistol made in Belgium and aimed it at only 5 feet (one and a half meters! ) it's a big public fire. A bullet broke the jugular vein of Dagong; The other two bullets cut off an artery in Sophie's abdomen (Princip apologized for "accidentally injuring" Sophie after being arrested, and she was not the target of assassination).
1 1 Just after dawn, Dagong and Sophie both died of internal bleeding. Flantz Ferdinand's last words to his wife were "Dear Sophie, you can't die, you have to live for our children". Today, the government of Bosnia and Herzegovina erected a wooden sign at the scene of the assassination, which read "I only hope for world peace" in Serbian, Bosnian and English.