Cause of death Suicide Date June 3, 1993 Target(s) Soldiers | Occupation Soldier Location(s) Vranje, FR Yugoslavia Name Jozsef Meneder | |
Born 1974 Subotica, SFR Yugoslavia Died June 3, 1993 (aged 19)
Vranje, FR Yugoslavia | ||
Jožef Meneder (Serbian Cyrillic: Јожеф Менедер, Hungarian: Meneder József; 1974, Subotica – 3 June 1993, Vranje) was Serbian-FR Yugoslavian mass murderer of Hungarian origin. On 3 June 1993, while serving as a private in the Army of FR Yugoslavia in the city of Vranje, Meneder opened fire with an automatic rifle, killing seven and wounding four fellow soldiers, before taking his own life.
Meneder was kept in confinement of the military barracks of the South Morava brigade because of a barracks brawl. On 3 June 1993, just after the midnight, he managed to escape the cell, attacking the guard with an ax. He took an automatic rifle from the injured guard and opened a fire on the group of sleeping soldiers. He killed six men on the spot (one staff sergeant and five privates). One more died later form the wounds. After that, he committed suicide. The military police investigation found on his left arm a tattoo with a date "3 June 1993" and Satanic symbols in his home. It was discovered that he was a member of a Satanist religious cult called Loša vera (Serbian for "Bad religion").