![]() ![]() The man who threw the bomb, Cabrinovic, was also sentenced to 20 years in prison. Princip was sentenced to twenty years in prison, the maximum for his age, and was imprisoned at the Terezín fortress. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria on June 28th 1914 will forever be remembered as one of the key turning points in twentieth century world history. Ferdinand's last words were “Sophie! Sophie! Don’t die! For our children! As the driver took a turn to head to the hospital Princip jumped out and shot Sophie in the abdomen who collapsed and died instantly then shot the Archduke in his neck and in his leg. After his speech he decided to go to the hospital to visit the 20 people injured in the bomb. The Archduke was shocked but headed to the Town Hall anyway and did his speech whilst the paper was covered in the blood of his assistant who was injured in the bomb. On the same route to the Town Hall a man, also from the Black Hand, called Cabrinovic threw a bomb at the car injuring lots of Ferdinand's staff but he failed to kill the Archduke himself so he tried to swallow cyanide and jump into the river Miljacka but failed to die and got arrested. He went home afterwards and hid his gun and bomb but was later arrested. On his way to the Town Hall the first man to try to assassinate the Archduke, Grabez, was standing waiting for Ferdinand to try and shoot him but he froze and let the car pass. Franz Ferdinand had jokingly mentioned that he wouldn’t be surprised if there was a few bombs waiting for him on his trip. He was traveling to the Town Hall at 10pm with his wife, Sophie, in the third car of a motorcade in a roofless limousine. On 28 June 1914, Franz Ferdinand went to Sarajevo in Bosnia for a trip. ![]()
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