Black Hand

Serbia’s president unveiled a statue of Princip, whose murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand helped to spark World War I, saying that the assassin tried to liberate Balkan countries from slavery.

A monument dedicated to Gavrilo Princip, whose murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand helped to spark World War I, will be inaugurated in the Serbian capital later this month.

Police investigate threats against Vucic

BELGRADE -- Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic says the Department for High Tech Crime launched an investigation into death threats made against Aleksandar Vucic.

These took place "via social networking websites" and were made "by a so-called Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization."

BELGRADE - Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic said Tuesday that the Department of High Tech Crime had begun an investigation into death threats made against Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic via social networking websites by the so-called Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization.

BELGRADE - An exhibition entitled Not so Long Ago... Fellow Citizens, which shows the life of Young Bosnia members before the Sarajevo assassination of Austro-Hungarian prince Franz Ferdinand, will be opened at Belgrade's Kalemegdan fortress on Tuesday as part of the programme marking the 100th anniversary of the start of World War One.

BELGRADE - Today marks 100 years since the June 28, 1914 assassination at Sarajevo of Archduke of Austria-Este Franz Ferdinand that Austria-Hungary used as an excuse for invading Serbia and starting World War One.