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A killer cut down

A French mounted policeman strikes Vlado

Chernozemski moments after the Bulgarian assassin

shot and killed the Yugoslav king Alexander I on

9 October 1934. The king was beginning a state visit

in Marseilles when Chernozemski, a member of the

Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation,

shot him; the Bulgarian was immediately attacked

by the crowd, who (according to reports) beat him

to death. The French foreign minister Jean-Louis

Barthou was also killed in the assassination.

A year in pictures: 1934

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