It might be hard to see him as a ‘HERO’ but he represented a swathe of nationalities, who felt hopeless against the might of a seemingly all-powerful empire and he really is too important to the story of World War 1 to leave him out. Instead he died in prison 3 years later, having been the touch paper to the start of World War 1. Princip killed Franz Ferdinand on the 28 th June 1914, and turned 20 on the 25 th July. Princip was captured and should have received the death penalty but Austro-Hungarian law dictated that no one under 20 could be put to death. Borijove Jevtic, one of the conspirators gave this eyewitness account: 'When Francis Ferdinand and his retinue drove from the station they were allowed to pass the first two conspirators. He shot dead Franz Ferdinand and his wife. Realising he’d gone the wrong way, Franz Ferdinand’s driver reversed back…past Princip again, who couldn’t resist the opportunity. But by bizarre and horrible coincidence, Franz Ferdinand’s driver took a wrong turn down a street, thereby driving straight past Princip and his gun. Princip withdrew to a cafe to nurse his disappointment. The assassin, 19-year-old Gavrilo Princip burned with the fire of Slavic nationalism. The couple was returning from an official visit to City Hall. Princip was born in western Bosnia to a poor Serb family. On the 28 th June 1914, Gavrilo Princip and his pals quickly gave up on killing Franz Ferdinand when they found their plans going awry. The victims, Archduke Franz Ferdinand - heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and his wife Sophie, were in the Bosnian city in conjunction with Austrian troop exercises nearby. Gavrilo Princip Gavrilo Princip ( Serbian Cyrillic:, pronounced rilo prntsip 25 July 1894 28 April 1918) was a Bosnian Serb student who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914. Gavrilo Princip, who shot the bullet that started World War 1
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