Death
As Foreign Minister, Barthou met King Alexander I of Yugoslavia during his visit to Marseilles in October 1934. On 9 October, the King and Barthou were assassinated by Velicko Kerin, a Bulgarian terrorist. The assassination was planned in Rome by Ante Pavelić in August 1934, head of Ustashe. Pavelić was assisted by Georg Percevic, a former Austro-Hungarian military officer. France unsuccessfully requested extradition of Percevic and Pavelic. This assassination ended careers of the Bouches-du-Rhone prefect Pierre Jouhannaud and the director of the Surete Nationale, Jean Berthoin.
The assassination of Barthou and the King led to the Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of Terrorism concluded at Geneva by the League of Nations on November 16, 1937. The Convention was signed by 25 nations, ratified only by India.
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