Serbian Interior Minister Ivica Dacic said on Sunday that the reconstruction of Miloš Žujović’s movements showed that he first reached the synagogue in Belgrade and that it was possible that it was his first target, but he continued on because of the large number of police officers around the synagogue.
Žujović, who converted to Islam and took the name Salahudin, wounded a member of the gendarmerie who was securing the Israeli embassy in Belgrade with a crossbow on Saturday.
The policeman responded to the attack with a firearm and the attacker died soon after.
On Saturday morning, Žujović arrived by bus from Mladenovac to the bus station in Belgrade, so he first went to the synagogue, but since the police were there, he continued on to the Israeli embassy.
Dačić added that searches were carried out at dozens of locations in Serbia and that the investigation showed that Žujović’s wife left the country two days before the terrorist attack and went to her native Montenegro, as well as that during the search of the house in Mladenovac, the police found a receipt for a crossbow which Žujović bought in Zemun on Friday.
“There are people who belong to the Wahhabi movement. We need to find a suitable connection between the activities of the Wahhabis and the specific event,” Dačić told RTS.
He added that two men were kept in custody, and a video was found in the possession of one person in which he swore allegiance to the so-called Islamic State.
“When you look at what is in the apartments of those people, you see that they are extremists,” added Dacic.
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