![]() A simple request to see papers would have revealed Princip was travelling illegally and put pay to the whole plot before the assassins reached Sarajevo. The Policeman noticed and asked Cabrinovic who Princip was and why he was staring at them, but his suspicions were not raised. Cabrinovic’s easy going nature had already endangered the other assassins during the journey. This made Gavrilo Princip, who was traveling separately, but by accident sitting in the same train carriage, nervous. The policeman had recently seen Cabrinovic senior and struck up a conversation with Nedeljko to catch him up on family news. The detective was a friend of his father’s, a businessman and pillar of the community, and there was much conflict between the radical Nedeljko and his father. When the assassins travelled from Belgrade to Sarajevo, Nedeljko Cabrinovic, the biggest liability of the conspirators, met a police detective from Sarajevo on the train in Bosnia. The assassination of Franz Ferdinand happened as a result of a whole series of mistakes and missed opportunities right from the beginning. ![]() It was this combination of tragedy and comedy that first drew me to the story and, I hope will draw people to a novel about the assassination, despite knowing the ending. It is perhaps less well known that the events leading up to the assassination were a terrible comedy of errors that culminated in a world-changing tragedy. Everyone knows the story ends with the death of the Archduke and his wife, Sophie, putting into play the diplomatic crisis that led to the First World War. ![]() ![]() The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was one of history’s greatest turning points, but it happened by accident. ![]()
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