Dacic: Crossbow attack confirmed as act of terrorism

BELGRADE - Serbian Interior Minister Ivica Dacic said on Monday a statement by the wife of a man who was gunned down after wounding a Serbian gendarme outside the Israeli embassy in Belgrade on Saturday confirmed the attack was an act of terrorism.

Milos Zujovic, 25, an Islamic convert from Mladenovac near Belgrade who had moved to Novi Pazar, southwestern Serbia, fired a crossbow arrow at 34-year-old gendarme Milos Jevremovic, wounding him in the neck.

Acting in self-defence, Jevremovic shot down Zujovic, whose religious name was Salahudin.

Zujovic was later found to have had ties with Wahhabism, a movement of Islamic extremists.

Speaking to Pink TV, Dacic said Montenegrin police had interrogated Besa Zujovic, the attacker's Montenegrin-born ethnic Albanian wife, and that her statement confirmed the attack was an act of terrorism.

"Montenegrin...