In short: a Bulgarian man (Oktai Enimehmedov), jumped on stage where another Bulgarian, Ahmed Dogan, the leader of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, was giving a speech. Oktai put a gun to Ahmed’s head; Ahmed very quickly knocked Oktai’s hand away, and security very quickly jumped on Oktai. And *continued* to jump on him, kick, him, stomp him… in short, they beat the crap out of him.
The reason why I put “assassination” in quotes: the gun was a “gas pistol,” a non-lethal weapon that shoots tear gas or the like. However, at close range (the gun looked like it was about a foot from Ahmed’s head, for about a millisecond), lethal injuries could result. This might have been an actual assassination attempt, or it might have been some form of political theater, like a slightly more aggressive form of a pie-in-the-face.
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You gotta love the old codger who comes up to the “assassin” near the end of the video and whacks him with his umbrella.