Point blank: Man aims gun at head of Bulgarian politician

Point blank: Man aims gun at head of Bulgarian politician during speech (SHOCKING VIDEO)


A man boarded the stage and pointed a gas pistol at the head of a leading Bulgarian politician in front of a stunned party conference. Angry parliamentarians then pounced on the would-be assassin, beating him to a bloody pulp.

(*)Ahmed Dogan, the leader of the Turkish minority MRF party, known as the kingmaker of Bulgarian politics, was delivering an emotional speech in which he was about to announce that he was stepping down as chief of the party he founded in 1990.

Local video footage then shows a tall, heavily-built man wearing a laminated badge, later named as Oktai Enimehmedov, running into view, before holding the pistol an inch away from Dogan’s face. Dogan flinches, and Enimehmedov pauses for a second without firing, before the politician rapidly regains his composure and pushes away the assailant’s hand. Security personnel then run onto the stage, and overwhelm the failed assassin. What follow are unedifying scenes of a swarm of furious politicians repeatedly kicking and punching Enimehmedov on the ground as blood streams from his head.

It is not clear if Enimehmedov planned to shoot, as he appeared to have sufficient time to pull the trigger before Dogan even noticed him.

“Such an act is unacceptable in a democratic country. In the name of all Bulgarians, I want to convey the outrage caused by this act of violence,” said President Rossen Plevneliev, who urged the authorities to investigate who, if anyone, was behind the attack.

25-year-old Enimehmedov, who has previous assault and drugs convictions, was also found to have been carrying a knife. What seemed to be his conference pass was actually obtained at a previous party event.

Security appears to have been lax at the conference. There were no metal detectors at the door, and the National Protection Service, an official corps of top bodyguards that accompanies all leading politicians, reacted slowly.

Although his Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) is a moderate liberal party, Dogan himself, often referred to as “the Falcon” by his allies and enemies alike, is a polarizing figure.

A dissident who went to jail in Communist times for protecting the rights of Turks who refused to abandon their identity during the forced policy of Bulgarization, he was later outed as a police informer, who co-operated with the secret service for more than a decade.

A successful leader, who led the party to a record result of 14 percent in the last election, Dogan has also been accused of being intolerant of dissent within his party, and of using his position to secure lucrative “consulting” fees from large corporations.

His political opponents say he has divided Bulgarian politics along ethnic lines, and has used the party as his personal plaything, joining two ideologically different governments as a minority coalition partner since the turn of the millennium.

In fact, some opponents have already accused Dogan of “staging” the incident to garner political support, and swing the outcome of the election in favour of the new MRF leader.

“Why did the security service act so unprofessionally? One possible answer is that we saw complete and utter incompetence; the alternative is that the National Protection Service was an accomplice in this staged incident,” said ultra-nationalist leader Volen Siderov.

The MRF conference is scheduled to restart this weekend.


http://rt.com/news/bulgaria-dogan-gun-turkish-330/

I don't know much about the inner workings of Bulgaria, but at min, you would have to find it a bit suspicous that there were not even metal detectors, in 2013, right?

 

I just saw this on the TV..

AWESOME ninja reflexes of the victim, and the rapid response and tackle by the security guys.

WELL DONE THAT WAS OUTSTANDING. This guy is no doubt getting the (*)(*)(*)(*) kicked out of him backstage.

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Why couldn't he just throw shoes like a normal person?

 

Duplicate thread - http://www.politicalforum.com/current-events/284954-assassination-attempt-ahmed-dogan-caught-tape.html

 

excuse me , I really dont know much about this , but there's been much talk recent on radio about Rumanians /Bulgarians gaining free immigration access to Britain and automaticaly being entitle to substantial state financial benefits . etc etc .
I dont know how this will pan out considering ou alread high record unemployment rates of young indigenous Brtish citizens


Its high (overdue) time our immigration regulations are reviewd + amended to suit present day requirements.



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Hmmm

 

Are you joking? Seriously.

Perhaps I veiwed a different video.

Had the pistol not failed (for lack of familiarity or other cause), Dogan would have been gravely wounded, if not dead.

The security details lack of responsiviness was astounding, in my opinion.

 

For all I know the initial context was cut out by the TV station. And I only saw the good part. So good point.

I can't view internet videos so I have to go on what I remember seeing on the TV.

 

If that is true, it is intolerable.

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No metal detectors?

In 2013?

Seems odd to me.

 

As far as I know, the only state benefit anyone is automatically qualified for is NHS treatment.

Everything else has qualification criteria that must be met.

 

But why should they?

They have paid NOTHING in?

 

In my opinion, the NHS is the pride of the UK.. The best feather in their cap.

The alternative would be denying treatment to the newcomers to the country. What if someone is arriving for a lifetime of taxpaying in the UK, but they get injured or sick when they get here? Leave them in a limbo period where they to sit in a bubble so as to not get hurt?

 

Yes.

But it says national health service.

It was not intended for Romanians and Bulgarians.

What do we get from adding to the pressure on the NHS?

What is in it for all those that paid into the system for years, and whose families have?

 

I understand. I didn't mean to sound harsh, my apologies.


To add... the reaction time of Mr. Dogan was quiet good, given the circumstance.

I was however, surprised/disappointed in the security detail. Allowing the attempted shooter onto the stage obviously could have resulted in an entirely different outcome. I'm confident it will be reevaluated.

 

The assailant was armed with a gas pistol which was able to fire tear gas cartridges only due to Europe's strict gun control laws and his gun apparently misfired, which gave the ethnic Turkish party leader enough time to react and the party leader could have only sustained minor injuries even if the shot had been fired successfully and it was an act of ethnic intimidation rather than an assassination attempt reported by the media and the ethnic Turks make up 8.8% of the Bulgarian population.

 

The Bulgarians and Rumanians are hard working people, and they are not the ones entering Britain and other European countries causing mayhem...the ones entering and living at the Europeans expense are gypsies. I know the Rumanians are quite upset over this, because they are being unjustly maligned.

I'm not sure what's going on in Bulgaria, but if it's anything like the institigating Erdogan and Devotoglu have done in Syria and Iraq in order to arouse their Turkic brethren, and is now doing to Greece, then the man who attacked the minority leader might have been upset with good cause. I read the Turkish newspapers, and from what I have gathered is that Erdogan and Devotoglu live in some sort of dream world. Devotoglu thinks that he can hop from country to country and instigate trouble to satisfy their own Ottoman ambitions, and that it won't upset Russia.

Well he can think again, because Russia has some historical concerns when it comes to the Balkans. That area is a powder keg and they are lighting a fuse.

 

Jack, this is a really good topic, and I'd like to answer these and other questions and discuss the matter. Please can you make a thread for this topic; I'd like to discuss!

cheers

 

Breaking News:


The attempted assassins' real name is Nenny Finkelsteine.

...dam jooz, they're everywhere!

lol,


(for my friend Jack)

 

Nah, they would have shot..and in the back.

Like when they murdered their own PM, shot in the back.

They blamed 'lax security' that day, as well. In Israel. With a PM. Hmmm...

As to the OP, some of his political opponents are accusing him of staging the incident. All is possible..

 

TV showed a longer clip..

This guy got the the (*)(*)(*)(*) kicked out of him.. He got a battering and a half.

Then I can't have sympathy because what the (*)(*)(*)(*) else was he expecting?

 

Was the gun loaded?

Anyone identify the type?

 

Check #13 post.

 

Misfired?

Didn't seem that way.

 

the guy used a non-lethal gas gun that fires whiffs of tear gas, he never intended to kill.

im reading that many Bulgarians think it was staged to stir up ethnic tensions / party support.


Here is a gas gun in action.... a true assassin would never use a gas gun... gas guns are intentionally designed to not be lethal at point blank range.

this is looking like some kind of stunt.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sll6oxY0WD0&list=UUw2wzQQorbIyBwsuO_KhMcg&index=14

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIQxNRuEWVY&list=UUw2wzQQorbIyBwsuO_KhMcg&index=13

 

http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n297320

 

All PRESIDENTS AND PRIME MINISTERS AND KINGS AND QUEENS AND THEIR GOVERNMENTS

should be in the FRONT lines of every war and invasion and conflict they wage

FRONT LINE in their tanks and Military uniforms!!!

FRONT LINE!

 

You do realise that the frontline is starting to look very different dependant on which side you sit, in a comfy chair in a drone control center somewhere deep in Nevada or in the tanks you mention?