Two men were remanded in custody after a Serbian police officer killed a man who shot him with a crossbow outside the Israeli embassy in Belgrade on Saturday in a “targeted terrorist act”
The assailant, whom the police identified as being a “convert” to Islam, shot the officer while he was on duty in front of the Israeli embassy.
The policeman opened fire in self-defense and the attacker later died.
The assailant, from Mladenovac, near Belgrade, lived in Novi Pazar, a historical and political center of Serbia’s Bosniak Muslim minority, police said.
Early indications connected the attack with people suspected of being linked to the ultra-conservative Wahhabist branch of Islam.
They added that a number of people known to the security services were suspected of being linked to the attack.