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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Ranjit Dhaliwal

The assassination of King Alexander - a picture from the past

Assassination Of King Alexander I Of Yugoslavia
Lieutenant Colonel Poillet cuts down the assassin of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia who was shot dead during a state visit to Marseille, France on 9 October 1934. The gunman, who was identified as Vlado Chernozemski, was an agent of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation and the Croatian fascist movement, the Ustasa. Chernozemski, who also killed the French foreign minister and the king's chauffeur, was beaten to death by an angry mob following the shooting
Illustration: Photograph: Hulton-Deutsch/ Corbis
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