2013 video of gunman attacking Bulgarian politician Ahmed Dogan shared as a recent attack
2013 video of gunman attacking Bulgarian politician Ahmed Dogan shared as a recent attack
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A video of a man pointing a gun at a speaker at a podium before being tackled is circulating with a misleading claim. Fact-checkers traced it to a BBC report from January 20, 2013. It shows an attack on Ahmed Dogan, then leader of Bulgaria’s Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS), at a party congress in Sofia.A video of a man pointing a gun at a speaker at a podium before being tackled is circulating with a misleading claim. Fact-checkers traced it to a BBC report from January 20, 2013. It shows an attack on Ahmed Dogan, then leader of Bulgaria’s Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS), at a party congress in Sofia.
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Fact-checkers found that the footage is more than 13 years old. According to a BBC report dated January 20, 2013, a man put a gas pistol to the head of Ahmed Dogan, leader of Bulgaria’s ethnic Turkish party, the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF), known in Bulgarian as ДПС, during a televised party conference in the capital, Sofia. The gun did not fire, and security guards and delegates wrestled the attacker to the ground. Dogan was unharmed. Bulgaria’s then Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov said the attacker had tried to fire twice but the weapon most likely misfired, and that it was later confirmed to be a gas pistol, a non-lethal weapon. Police arrested the 25-year-old attacker from Burgas, who also had knives and a criminal record. The "ДПС" logo on the podium in the viral clip matches the BBC footage. The incident has no link to India or to any recent event. Dramatic old foreign footage is often recycled as fresh news, so a video’s original date and source should be checked before it is shared.
Fact-checkers found that the footage is more than 13 years old. According to a BBC report dated January 20, 2013, a man put a gas pistol to the head of Ahmed Dogan, leader of Bulgaria’s ethnic Turkish party, the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF), known in Bulgarian as ДПС, during a televised party conference in the capital, Sofia. The gun did not fire, and security guards and delegates wrestled the attacker to the ground. Dogan was unharmed. Bulgaria’s then Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov said the attacker had tried to fire twice but the weapon most likely misfired, and that it was later confirmed to be a gas pistol, a non-lethal weapon. Police arrested the 25-year-old attacker from Burgas, who also had knives and a criminal record. The "ДПС" logo on the podium in the viral clip matches the BBC footage. The incident has no link to India or to any recent event. Dramatic old foreign footage is often recycled as fresh news, so a video’s original date and source should be checked before it is shared.