1971 Yugoslav Embassy shooting | |
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Location | Embassy of Yugoslavia, Strandvägen 7B, Stockholm, Sweden |
Coordinates | 59°19′57″N 18°04′50″E / 59.332485°N 18.080624°E |
Date | 7 April 1971 |
Target | Vladimir Rolović |
Weapons | Pistol |
Deaths | 1 (a week later) |
Injured | 2 |
Assailants | Miro Barešić, Anđelko Brajković, Ante Stojanov, Marinko Lemo, Stanislav Milicevic |
Motive | Revenge for the murder of Vjekoslav Luburić |
The 1971 Yugoslav Embassy shooting was a terrorist attack carried out by Croatian separatists affiliated with the Ustaše movement. It occurred on 7 April 1971, at the embassy of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in Stockholm, Sweden. Among the victims was Vladimir Rolović, the ambassador, who was shot by the attackers, and died a week later.