Anniversary of assassination of Aleksandar I

BELGRADE -- Today marks the 74th anniversary of the assassination of King Aleksandar Karađorđević I in Marseille. The assassination was organized by the Macedonian revolutionary party, the VMRO, and Ante Pavelić’s Ustasha movement. The assassin was killed at the scene, immediately after the shooting. Aleksandar was murdered as he sat in his car during a street procession through the streets of Marseille, while French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou was accidentally shot by a French policeman during the incident and died later. Italy, Hungary and Germany were suspected of involvement in the assassination of the Yugoslav King. The League of Nations launched an investigation into the involvement of certain countries, in what was, according to historian Momčilo Pavlović, the first time that the term “International terrorism” had... [read full story]