Eerie....

BELGRADE, Serbia (CNN) -- Serbia's government says the assassination of Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic was carried out by members of an organized crime group.

"This criminal act is a clear attempt to put an end to the development and democratization of Serbia and plunge it into isolation once again and was carried out by those who have been trying over the past few years to do so through various murders and assassinations," the government said in an official statement.

Officials are speculating that the shooting could be linked to a crime wave in the country and the government's efforts to stamp out organized crime.

The government is blaming a criminal group called the Zemun clan, named after a Belgrade municipality, for the killing but made no mention of arrests, although local media said two or three people had been held, Reuters reports.

Replace the names and dates, and this sounds scarily reminiscent of the assassination of Franz Ferdinand by Gavril Princip in June 1914.... Princip was affiliated with the Black Hand, a criminal organization dedicated to recruiting and training partisans for a war between Serbia and Austria.