Policeman kills knife attacker outside Israel's embassy in Serbia
Authorities raised Serbia’s terror alert to its highest level after the attack, and officials said the wounded officer was expected to be discharged Wednesday.
- 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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Israeli diplomacy confirmed on Wednesday an attempt to "terrorist attack" on the night near the Israeli embassy in Belgrade, shortly after the announcement of the first results of the legislative elections in Israel.
Serbian authorities point out that he is an alleged jihadist, member or at least sympathizer of the terrorist group Islamic State (IS), judging by his profile on Instagram, where he appeared waving the organization’s flag
An attempted assault with a knife on a police officer in front of the Israeli embassy, finished with the assassination of the attacker. It happened shortly after midnight in Belgrade. A minor, whose identity has not yet been established but who is presumed to be originating in Sabac (city of western Serbia, ed.), attacked a member of the gendarmerie [...] The article Belgrade, attacks policeman with the knife in front of the embassy of Israel: k…
A policeman deployed under the security of the Israeli embassy in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, was attacked with a knife. Police retaliated by killing the minor attacker. The Home Minister has raised the level of security alerts in the country considering the incident a terrorist attack.
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