Nedeljko Čabrinović (Serb: НедељкоЧабриновић ) (1865 - January 23rd, 1916) was a member of the black Hand, and one of the seven assassins having taken part in the successful assassination of François-Ferdinand of Austria. Born with Sarajevo, Čabrinović was during a few years handyman, before leaving for Belgrade and working in a printing works, where it will become familiar of the anarchistic literature . In 1912 it joined the black hand. Two years later, Dragutin Dimitrijević, leader of the black Hand, ordered with Čabrinović, Gavrilo Princip and five other conspirators the assassination of François-Ferdinand, in their giving to each one a gun and two bombs, as well as an amount of Cyanide, in their ordering to introduce it if they would be taken.

The assassination

It should be noted that various versions of the assassination exist, because of long period spent since the facts.

The assassination was held on June 28th, 1914. The first assassin tried to draw on Ferdinand, but it was unable to aim well. Čabrinović launched its bomb inside the car of Ferdinand as soon as this one tried to flee. A witness told that when Ferdinand saw the bomb approaching, in the aim of protection its life, it made rebound the bomb with its arm. The bomb destroys a close car, making serious damage among its passengers. Čabrinović then swallowed its cyanide and jumped in a close river. But the cyanide was not pure and only made it sick. It was apprehended by the authorities. Ironically, this missed attack was the cause of the true assassination of Ferdinand, because this one insisted to visit at the hospital the victims of the bomb, but its driver made the error to pass close to Princip, which did not waste time to draw, and to kill Ferdinand and his wife. Čabrinović confessed its crimes, persuaded which he was a Serb hero and a true nationalist. Since he was minor, he was not carried out, but was condemned to fifteen years of prison. He died in 1916 of tuberculosis. Josip Novakovich wrote the fictitious memories of Čabrinović, " The Stamp ", which was published in Plowshares in 2002, and included with the Novakovich collection, Infidelities: Stories off War and Lust , in 2005.