Crowding the streets outside the city hall in Sarajevo, people were treated to a concert to commemorate the event which triggered the First World War.<br /><br />It is the same hall where Archduke Franz Ferdinand attended a reception 100 years ago to this day, before being fatally shot by Gavrilo Princip.<br /><br />He was a member of a revolutionary group hoping to emancipate the country from imperial rule, 100 years later Austrians provided the music rather than military.<br /><br />The concert concluded with the European hymn, Beethoven’s ‘Ode of Joy’.<br /><br />The event aimed to send a message of unity to a country divided by bloody conflicts during the twentieth century which cost tens of millions of lives.
