Posted on 01/19/2013 6:38:10 AM PST by Timber Rattler
SOFIA, Bulgaria — Police in Bulgaria detained a man after he pointed a gun at an ethnic Turkish party leader as he was delivering a speech in the capital. No shots were fired.
The video from the Saturday event in Sofia shows the man climbing the podium where Ahmed Dogan, the leader of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, was speaking on Saturday, and pointing the gun to his face.
Dogan struck the man before other delegates wrestled the assailant to the ground, and police took him away.
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Apparently, the would-be assassin's gun jammed, or else he forgot to release its safety or chamber a round.
The beating continued after they removed him from the stage, as shown in this second video:
Bulgaria: Man points a gun at Ahmed Dogan during speech
I have njo doubt that the perp is going to have a rough night ahead of him.
Dogan is well known as having worked for the Bulgarian Committee for State Security, the equivalent of the KGB. I will not be surprised if the whole thing was staged.
Incredible, do they not manufacture handcuffs in Bulgaria? Ahmed needs to fire his whole security team.
Apparently the would be assassin failed to properly maintain his weapon.
Reminds me of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9rmHPmnnKw
Wow !
Wow. Suicide mission.
Look for the perpetrator to either have an unfortunate "accident" very soon, or else commit "suicide" in his cell.
looks staged to me, Dogan ineffectually pushes him and falls to the ground and rolls away?
Correct.
The look on the speaker’s face didn’t look staged, the stupido trying to run the slide after the cheap Ruski round failed to pop, nor the butt-kickin.
If was staged, look for something similar soon with nobama or biteme trying to recover from their slide in the polls on gun confiscation fiasco.
Anybody know what the crowd was chanting in the second video and did I see a man rush the stage with an umbrella? An assault umbrella...if so, he would be my hero!
The picture of the gun on the ground looks like a cheap .25, what the gun-control crowd used to call a “Saturday Night Special”. Those guns are notorious for being very cheap and unreliable.
If you read a newspaper story where an assailant attempted to shoot someone and “the gun failed to fire”, in most of those situations the gun will be a .25. I’m sure countless lives have been saved by those things failing to go off.
Looks like amateur night in the third world...
Typical utter chaos....
Reports now are that it was a “gas pistol”. Doesn’t look like a gas pistol to me.
So the politician is the leader of the minority Turkish/Muslims party? Correct?
Man nobody uses a 25 anyomre!
Could have been a 380 or 9mm. Up close head shot, lights out. In Bulgaria, look to blame the russian ammo. Wanna roll the dice, use russian ammo.
Why don’t you dig up the info on the pistol and let us know?
Thanks Timber Rattler.
#1, the targeted politician was a Turk.
#2, the perp was a Turk.
#3, other Bulgarians beat the crap out of the perp, well done!
Correct. The funny thing is that the Bulgarian constitution forbids having a political party based on a ethnicity and yet that is exactly the party that Dogan is the head of. Of course, it is one of the multiple creations of the communists and their State Security. That is how they have kept control of the country for the whole period after the fall of communism except for a brief interruption between 1997 and 2001. The reports now are that the attacker is also an ethnic Turk, and that Dogan has stepped down and handed over the leadership to his second in command.
Most of the lynch mob are also Turks.
Yeah, I can read. Probably everyone present was ethnically Turkish, and everyone there was a Bulgarian citizen. Since he wasn’t lynched, they weren’t a lynch mob.
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