Agram Trial

The Austro-Hungarian government had discredited the Croat-Serb Coalition and created an internal discussion accusing Serbs of massive conspiracy.

The trial caused sensation across Europe, and was viewed as a blatant attempt to crush Slavic majority politics in Croatia-Slavonia.

The accusations of sedition against the newly elected members of the Croatian government arrived just in time to put most of the Slavic members of parliament in prison (where they remained for over 2 years without trial) and return control back to the Austro-Hungarians who held nearly a third of the seats in the Diet ex-officio(they held none by election) and hence became the government.

Austrian ambassador in Belgrade János Forgách forged documents against the accused Slavs with the help of two Slavic traitors; Djeodje Nastić and Valerian Sergijan Vasić.

The cloud of international suspicion against Serbia at being the puppet masters and instigators of the defendant's alleged sedition provided convenient cover to allow Austro-Hungary to annex Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1909 against the terms of the Berlin Treaty of 1878, without the Serbs being able to muster sufficient international sympathy for the southern Slavic cries for independence to prevent the annexation.