Vlado Chernozemski (Bulgarian: Владо Черноземски; born Velichko Dimitrov Kerin, Bulgarian: Величко Димитров Керин; 19 October 1897 – 9 October 1934) was a Bulgarian[1] revolutionary and assassin.
He is also known as "Vlado the Chauffeur". Chernozemski began his revolutionary activities in 1922 when he joined the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO). Soon after, he became an assassin for the IMRO. He killed two notable Bulgarian politicians, communist Dimo Hadzhidimov, and IMRO member Naum Tomalevski. Both times he was sentenced to death, but he escaped from his first imprisonment and was released from the second. After his release in 1932, he became an instructor for the Ustaše. He trained a group of three Ustaše to assassinate Alexander of Yugoslavia, but eventually killed Alexander himself on 9 October 1934 in Marseille. He was then beaten by French police and spectators, and died the same day. French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou was also killed by a stray bullet fired by French police during the scuffle following the attack.[2]
Stefan Troebst,"Historical Politics and Historical “Masterpieces” in Macedonia before and after 1991Archived 2004-01-10 at the Wayback Machine", New Balkan Politics, Issue 6, 2003: "... the suicide-assassin from VMRO, Vlado Cernozemski, who, on orders from Mihajlov and his ethno-national VMRO, which was defined as Bulgarian, killed the Yugoslav king Alexander I Karadzordzevic and the French Minister of Foreign Affairs Louis Bareau in Marseilles in 1934."
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^Гаджев, Иван (2003). История на българската емиграция в Северна Америка: поглед отвърте (in Bulgarian). Илия Т. Гаджев. p. 259.
^Панайотов, Филип (1999). България 20-ти век. Алманах (in Bulgarian). ИК Труд. p. 1127.
^Izvestia na Natsionalnia istoricheski muzeĭ, Tomove 16–19, Natsionalen istoricheski muzeĭ, Izdatelstvo Nauka i izkustvo, 2006, str. 129.
^Владимир Георгиев-Черноземски или вистинското име Величко Димитров-Керин (с.Каменица, Велинградско, Бугарија, 19 октомври 1897г.), учесник во македонското револуционерно движење, по националност Бугарин; во 1922 година се вклучил во редовите на ВМРО и бил четник кај војводите Иван Јанев-Брло и Панчо Михајлов; во времето на Иван Михајлов извршил голем број на атентати врз македонски дејци, а во 1932 година бил испратен од страна на ВМРО во логорот "Јанка Пуста" во Унгарија, како инструктор на хрватските усташи. For more see: Виолета Ачкоска и Никола Жежов, "Предавствата и атентатите во македонската историја". Издателство Макавеј, Скопје, 2003, стр. 221.
^Makedonska enciklopedija: M-Š (in Macedonian), MANU, 2009, ISBN9786082030241, p. 1621.