COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, ALLOWANCE IS MADE FOR FAIR USE PURPOSES such as CRITICISM, COMMENT, <br /><br />news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and RESEARCH. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be <br /><br />infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.<br />--I have no ads on this video.any copyright issues, please just send a msg.<br /><br />SOFIA, Bulgaria — Bulgarian police detained a man after he pointed a gas pistol at an ethnic Turkish party leader as he was delivering <br /><br />a speech at a party caucus in the capital Saturday. No shots were fired.<br /><br />The video from the Saturday event in Sofia shows the man climbing the podium where Ahmed Dogan, the leader of the Movement for Rights <br /><br />and Freedoms, was speaking, and pointing the gun to his face.<br /><br />Dogan struck the man before he could pull the trigger, while other delegates wrestled the assailant to the ground. TV footage showed <br /><br />several people punching, kicking and stomping on the man when he was on the ground.<br /><br />Police arrested him and took him to a hospital. It wasn't immediately clear if he sustained serious injuries, or how he got past <br /><br />security to enter the hall with nearly 3,000 people attending.<br /><br />Eventually, the attacker was identified by police as 25-year-old Oktai Enimehmedov, a Bulgarian national and ethnic Turk, from the <br /><br />coastal city of Burgas. He was carrying the gas pistol and two knives. A gas pistol is a non-lethal weapon used for self-defense, but <br /><br />experts say when fired from close range it can cause life-threatening injuries.<br /><br />Interior Minister Tsvevtan Tsvetanov told journalists that the assailant had a criminal record for drugs possession, robberies and <br /><br />hooliganism.<br /><br />The liberal MRF party mainly represents ethnic Turks and other Muslims in Bulgaria, who make up 12 percent of its 7.3-million <br /><br />population.<br /><br />The conference had to elect a new leader to succeed Dogan, who is one of the Balkan country's most influential political figures. The <br /><br />58-year-old has been at the helm of the party since founding it in 1990.<br /><br />Lyutvi Mestan, who was expected to become the new party leader, said "the true reason for the assault was the language of hatred and <br /><br />confrontation."<br /><br />Saturday's assault was the gravest attack on a politician in post-communist Bulgaria after the 1996 killing of ex-prime Minister <br /><br />Andrei Lukanov.
