An attacker with a crossbow wounded a Serbian police officer guarding the Israeli Embassy in Belgrade on Saturday, Serbia's Interior Ministry said.
Police officers block off traffic at an intersection close to the Israeli embassy in Belgrade , Serbia , Saturday, June 29, 2024.
The policeman was conscious when he was transported to Belgrade's main emergency hospital and underwent an operation to remove the bolt from his neck. Hospital officials said he was stable after surgery. Dacic told reporters that an investigation was ongoing, but "there are now all indications that the motives relate to terrorism. Because there is no other motive why someone would attack a gendarme outside the Israeli Embassy."
There are indications that those are individuals already known to the security services the Wahhabi movement," said Dacic, referring to the hard-line Islamist movement. "But this still has not been confirmed."
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