Policeman kills knife attacker outside Israel's embassy in Serbia
Authorities treated the stabbing as a suspected terrorist attack and raised Serbia’s terror alert to its highest level, officials said.
- An unidentified assailant attacked a guard with knives outside the Israeli Embassy in Belgrade on Wednesday; police killed the attacker, whom authorities are investigating for potential ties to the Islamic State.
- Interior Minister Ivica Dacic said police are treating the incident as a "terrorist attack" and claimed the attacker had posted support for the Islamic State on Instagram.
- Shouting "Allahu Akbar," the assailant attacked a member of the Gendarmerie with two knives; the officer, lightly wounded, "liquidated" the attacker in "self-defense," Dacic said.
- The attack follows a parliamentary election in Serbia where President Aleksandar Vucic was defeated, though Vucic and his allies currently retain control of the police as the new government forms.
- This incident follows a 2024 attack at the same Belgrade embassy where an assailant with a crossbow wounded a Serbian police officer; Israel also held parliamentary elections with unclear results.
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A Serbian police officer guarding the Israeli embassy in Belgrade shot and killed a minor who attacked him with a knife while shouting "Allahu Akbar" on Wednesday night, Serbian broadcaster N1 reported, adding that authorities are investigating the incident as a terrorist attack. Israel held parliamentary elections on Tuesday, but the results will not be counted until Wednesday.
A minor was shot dead by a Serbian gendarme in front of the Embassy of Israel in Belgrade, after two knives attacked a policeman to provide security. The Serbian authorities qualified the incident as a terrorist attack and raised the alert to the highest level.
A minor was shot fatally on Tuesday night towards Wednesday, after attacking with two knives a gendarmerie that provides security for the Embassy of Israel in Belgrade. The incident was qualified as a possible terrorist attack by Serbian Interior Minister Ivica Dacic. Article Terrorist Alert in Belgrade. A minor attacked a policeman near the Embassy of Israel, shouting "Allah Akbar!". The boy was shot fatally appears first on Romania TV.
While early elections were being released in Israel, a young Islamic extremist armed with knives struck an officer in service outside the diplomatic headquarters. For the Serbian police, it was not a coincidence but a planned provocation.
A minor armed with two knives was killed after attacking a gendarme who was "ensuring the protection" of the Israeli diplomatic representation in Serbia. The Ministry of the Interior refers to a "terrorist attack" committed by an "Islamic State party".
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