Video: Attacker Points Gun at Politician, Then Gets the Bulgaria Beat Out of Him

[Dan T.]

This happened Saturday at a conference in Sofia, Bulgaria. The speaker and target of the assailant is Ahmed Dogan, a Bulgarian politician of Turkish descent who is chairman of a centrist Bulgarian political party:

[Mr. Sinister]

Damn they stomped that dude out. With that many people getting in shots, it's a shame that he was still conscious afterwards.

[Stugein]

Did the gun jam or did he forget to take it off safety?

[zoony]

This happened Saturday at a conference in Sofia, Bulgaria. The speaker and target of the assailant is Ahmed Dogan, a Bulgarian politician of Turkish descent who is chairman of a centrist Bulgarian political party:

Did the gun misfire or something?

[Dan T.]

Did the gun jam or did he forget to take it off safety?

It's an odd story. Later reports said it was a gas pistol loaded with a pepper spray canister. He was also carrying two knives.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/01/man-points-gun-at-bulgarian-politicians-head-during-speech/

[CRobi21]

Did the gun jam or did he forget to take it off safety?

Looks like he forgot to **** it. You see after he has it to the guys head and it gets slapped away. It looks like the he tries to **** it.

[Dan T.]

Looks like he forgot to **** it. You see after he has it to the guys head and it gets slapped away. It looks like the he tries to **** it.

Obscenity filter fail.

[zoony]

Looks like he forgot to **** it. You see after he has it to the guys head and it gets slapped away. It looks like the he tries to **** it.

Appears to be a double action pistol

[autoidiodyssey]

Pretty good security. Set aside how he got a gun into the event, how was he able to get that close to the speaker? This guy is supposed to be the head of a party. There is no way someone could get on stage with Pelosi or Boehner at a speaking event. I might have missed it, but I didn't see one uniformed police officer in that entire clip. It looked like the guys who led him down the stairs at the end had guns under their jackets probably some sort of Secret Service types. You would think that a large political event like that would have some sort of police presence.

[Popeman38]

Where the **** are the cops? Is there no police in Sofia? I mean, I know the local mafia runs **** there (was thrown out of a very nice restaraunt by large eastern european men with sub-machine guns in 2002), but no police presence at all?

[KingGibbs]

That brings a smile to my face. I'd like to see that kind of justice over here.

[FSUSkins24]

Check out the comment section. Some people are saying it was set up. Not sure if there is any truth to it or not.

I don't mind justice being served like that.