2011 United States embassy attack in Sarajevo

2011 Sarajevo embassy attack
Location Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Coordinates 43°51′20.32″N 18°24′5.33″E / 43.8556444°N 18.4014806°E / 43.8556444; 18.4014806
Date 28 October 2011
Attack type
 Shooting
Weapons Automatic rifle
Deaths 0
Non-fatal injuries
 2
Perpetrator Mevlid Jašarević

A gunman wearing a beard fired with a Kalashnikov rifle on the United States embassy in Sarajevo on 28 October 2011, resulting in one local policeman guarding the embassy being wounded in the arm by the gunman, while the shooter was wounded by a police sniper.[1][2] The attacker shot 105 bullets, and severely wounded policeman Mirsad Velić.[3] A Ministry of Interior agent neutralized the attacker with a sniper shot.[3] The attacker was identified as Mevlid Jašarević (b. 1988), an Serbian national[1] born in Novi Pazar in southwestern Serbia, living in well-known Wahhabist stronghold Gornja Maoča in Bosnia and Herzegovina.[3] Jašarević lived in Vienna for a period before moving to Donja Maoča.

On 24 April 2012 Mevlid Jašarević was indicted by a federal grand jury in the District of Columbia on charges of attempted murder and other violations in connection with his alleged machine gun attack on the United States Embassy, Sarajevo, on 28 October 2011.[1][4] A Bosnian court sentenced him on 6 December 2012 to 18 years in prison.[5] It was then lowered to 15 years in 2013.[3]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Individual Indicted in Connection with Machine Gun Attack on U.S. Embassy in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 2011". www.justice.gov. U.S. Department of Justice. 8 October 2014. Retrieved 29 June 2018.
  2. ↑ Mackey, Robert; Gladstone, Rick (2011-10-28). "Gunman Fires at U.S. Embassy in Sarajevo". The New York Times.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "15 godina za Jasarevica".
  4. ↑ "FBI — Individual Indicted in Connection with Machine Gun Attack on U.S. Embassy in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 2011". Fbi.gov. Retrieved 2012-04-29.
  5. ↑ "World, Europe".
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