Vlado Chernozemski

Vlado Chernozemski (the Driver) (October 19, 1897 - October 9, 1934), born Velichko Dimitrov Kerin ( _bg. Величко Димитров Керин), was a Bulgarian revolutionary. [ [http://promacedonia.com/ms/ms_index.html Митре Стаменов. „Атентатът в Марсилия. Владо Черноземски. Живот, отдаден на Македония“,(Издание на ВМРО-СМД, София, 1993)] ] [ [http://www.geocities.com/vmro_makedon/Nastani/marsej.html Марсејскиот атентат - Цане Ѓорѓиевски] ] He was born in the village of Kamenitsa (now part of Velingrad). He joined the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO) in 1922. After killing Dimo Hadjidimov, leader of Bulgarian Communist Party in 1924 he was sentenced to death in 1928, but was granted an amnesty in 1932. He also murdered another member of the left wing of IMRO in 1930 on the order of Ivan Mihaylov.

Chernozemski also entered the region of Vardar Macedonia with IMRO bands and participated in more than 15 battles with the Serbian police. At one point, Chernozemski planned to enter the League of Nations building in Paris and detonate himself to protest against the passivity of the world organization over the question of Macedonian independence but never carried out the plotFact|date=November 2007. He assassinated Alexander I of Yugoslavia in the port of Marseille, France on October 9, 1934, [cite book
last =Rothschild
first =Joseph
title =The Communist Party of Bulgaria; Origins and Development, 1883-1936
publisher =Columbia University Press
date =1959
pages =277-278] and was himself killed immediately afterwards, 10 days before his 37th birthday. He was also thought to have shot and killed French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou until 1974, when it was revealed that the bullet actually came from a French policeman reacting to the shooting of King AlexanderFact|date=October 2008.

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* [http://www.promacedonia.org/ms/ms_index.html "The assault in Marseille. Vlado Chernozemski. Life, dedicated to Macedonia" by Mitre Stamenov] bg icon
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfxL67Uqp6E Documentary film The Assassination of the Yugoslavian king Alexander in 1934] en icon
* [http://www.watsoninstitute.org/pub_detail.cfm?id=132 The King is Dead, Long Live the Balkans! Watching the Marseilles Murders by Keith Brown - The Watson Institute for International Studies]
*YouTube|SrruCOZwxKA&mode=related&search=|The Assassination of the Yugoslavian king Alexander, video 1 bg icon