![Sisi and Luigi Lucheni are inextricably linked. Illustration by Marco Heer.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/sisi-1-300x225.jpg)
Sisi’s assassin
On 10 September 1898, Luigi Lucheni murdered the Austrian Empress Sisi in Geneva. After his arrest, he asked to be beheaded. The Swiss judiciary refused his request. In the end, though, the anarchist did lose his head…
![The assassination of Sisi, depicted in a drawing.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/ermordung-300x199.jpg)
![Luigi Lucheni appeared ‘happy’ upon his arrest.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/verhaftung-lucheni-240x300.jpg)
![Telegram to Federal President Eugène Ruffy, 10 September 1898.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/telegramm-253x300.jpg)
![Luigi Lucheni assassinated the Austrian Empress with this file.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/feile-2-198x300.jpg)
![Cover sheet of Luigi Lucheni’s police file.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/polizeiakte-lucheni-199x300.jpg)
![Excerpt from the minutes of the Federal Council meeting of 16 September 1898.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/BR-Sitzung-300x133.jpg)
![Probably the last photo of Sisi (on the left). On 10 September 1898, the Empress strolls through Geneva with Countess Irma Sztáray.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/sissi-spaziergang-300x205.jpg)
Head sawn open, brain examined
TV feature about the murder of Sisi (German with english subtitles). YouTube