The policeman Nikolay Filipov, who was fatally shot by his 7-year-old son, took the child to the office , because there was no one to watch it on Monday afternoon. This learned “Trud news” from a source familiar with the investigation. Asked today if there is any evidence that this child was taken to the workplace by his parent on another occasion, Interior Minister Kalin Stoyanov replied: “I have no evidence that such a thing happened systematically. But it is unacceptable!”
As reported by “Trud news”, the 49-year-old Special Police Force (SPS) firearms instructor was fatally shot with a single bullet in the head around 5.15pm on Monday. The trigger of his service pistol “Glock” pressed the child who was in the locker room of the unit next to the Rowing Base in Plovdiv.
“What I found out is that in the morning they had tasks that they completed successfully, then they also had planned training, after which the colleague takes his child and takes him to the office where the colleagues change and where they their lockers. The gun was probably there too and the locker wasn't locked. The colleagues heard a shot, went there and saw the child with a gun in his hands and the colleague fatally shot on the ground, Minister Stoyanov said. He did not undertake to confirm the version that the gun was left unattended, without a safety guard and loaded with a bullet in the barrel, as this has yet to be clarified by the experts on the case.