Vulin pays tribute to King Aleksandar I Karadjordjevic in Marseille

Photo: MUP RS

Interior Minister Aleksandar Vulin, who will meet today with the top executives of Airbus in Marseille, laid a laurel wreath on a memorial plaque at the site where Aleksandar I Karadjordjevic was assassinated in 1934.

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Vulin also laid flowers at the memorial to King Aleksandar I of Yugoslavia and French Foreign Minister Jean-Louis Barthou, the Interior Ministry said.

"King Aleksandar I Karadjordjevic, King of Yugoslavia, was the first victim of fascism. He was killed jointly by German and Italian services, along with the Ustashas (from Croatia) and the pro-Bulgarian VMRO (from North Macedonia). Vlado Cernozemski only pulled the trigger, this lost soul is not very important, but the forces that conspired to destroy Yugoslavia are important, and with it to destroy Serbia and the Serb people above all," Vulin said in Marseille.

He pointed out that we Serbs easily forget and that we have almost forgotten "the knightly king Aleksandar."

He added that there is not a single street in Belgrade, not a single monument dedicated to him.

"Here at the place of their tragedy, here at the place where King Aleksandar was killed, but where the idea of one, yet three peoples (Serbs, Croats and Slovenes=Yugoslavia) was killed, we must remember that Serbs must not allow others to write history for them. We must remember that we have always been on the right side of history, and that those who are lecturing us today where we should be and how we should be, have always been on the wrong side of history," said Minister Vulin.

His message for the Serbs was to "remember their king, but also all the sacrifices that the Serbs made for freedom because every sacrifice we forget is a new sacrifice in the future, and every ancestor we forget is a new sacrifice of our descendants."

Aleksandar Vulin stressed that he is "proud of Serbia and the Serb people, who belong to the better, liberty-loving and anti-fascist side of the world."

(Telegraf.rs)