GAVRIL PRINCIP 1894-1918
A Bosnian Serb and member of the 'Young Bosnia' terrorist group, Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife on 28 June 1914 and plunged Europe into the trauma of First World War.
Princip was chosen for this mission because he suffered from tuberculosis and was expected to have a short life span. He tried to commit suicide after the assassination, but the poison he took was ineffective and he was taken alive. A mere teenager at the time of the murders, Princip could not be sentenced to death. He received a sentence of 20 years' imprisonment instead, but died of tuberculosis in April 1918.
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