Senad Ramović was “liquidated” after he resisted arrest and opened fire on security forces in Hotkovo – in Novi Pazar, a historic centre of Serbia’s Bosniak Muslim minority – Interior Minister Ivica Dačić said in a statement to state television RTS.

Ramović had been on the run since the main suspect, Miloš Žujović, shot a police officer with a crossbow outside the Israeli mission in the capital’s Savski Venac government district in June. The police officer was wounded in the neck but managed to return fire and kill the terrorist.

According to local media, Ramović played a “key role” in the radicalization of Žujović, a convert to radical Islam from Mladenovac near Belgrade.

Ramović had previously reportedly been sentenced to 13.5 years in prison on terrorism charges related to a shootout with police in 2007.

In the days following the attack near the Israeli embassy, ​​Serbian authorities arrested two more suspects, Dačić said at the time.

“Searches were carried out in several locations in Serbia, dozens of people were questioned,” the minister said. The prosecutor’s office is investigating whether they were connected to the “targeted terrorist attack,” he added.

“It is undeniable that all these people belong to the Wahhabi extremist movement,” said Dačić, referring to one of the most radical variants of Sunni Islam, which is also the state religion of Saudi Arabia and the ruler of Qatar.

Since the Hamas-led terrorist invasion of the northwestern Negev on October 7, Israeli embassies around the world have been on high alert.

At the beginning of June, a man threw a Molotov cocktail at the Israeli embassy in the Romanian capital Bucharest. The attack resulted in no injuries or damage, and the suspected terrorist of Syrian origin was arrested.

In mid-March, the Israeli embassy in the Netherlands was attacked with firebombs and in January an apparent explosive device was found near the Jewish state’s diplomatic mission in the Swedish capital Stockholm.

The Islamic Republic of Iran is behind the Swedish attack and other terrorist attacks on Israeli embassies across Europe since October 7, the Israeli secret service Mossad announced on May 30.