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Assassination of Elisabeth, Empress of Austria (Geneva 1898)

SOLVEDGeneva lakeshore promenade near Hôtel Beau-Rivage, Geneva, Switzerland0:28

Empress Elisabeth of Austria was fatally stabbed with a sharpened file by Italian anarchist Luigi Lucheni on a Geneva promenade on 10 September 1898, dying of internal bleeding from a wound to the heart. Empress Elisabeth is stabbed. Send this to someone from Geneva.

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The killer had come for someone else entirely. Geneva, 1898. The weapon was recovered the day after the attack by a hotel concierge. Elisabeth initially got back to her feet and continued to a boat. She was carried back to the hotel, where she was pronounced dead at 2. Empress Elisabeth is stabbed. What was the moment that mattered? Read it in full, with sources, on casepin dot org.

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