The investigation into the incident in which a 7-year-old boy shot his father continues you are a policeman, at his workplace in Plovdiv. Among the leading versions, a cartridge was left in the barrel of the gun, which the child took while playing. According to a weapons expert who knew the dead policeman personally, the weapon was without a safety because it was a professional model. And this has made shooting even easier. Psychologists also expressed the opinion that the child reached for the weapon in play, without really being aware of what was happening.
A combat weapon with exceptional strength and powerful ammunition. With an identical gun, weapons expert Kiril Kolikov, who worked personally with the dead policeman, shows how easy it is to fire a shot. Even from a child. Which according to him or was trained to shoot. Or it picked up a gun with a cartridge left in the barrel.
"It doesn't have a safety, so if there's a round in the barrel, it just pulls, just pulls the trigger. So it is not excluded that even a younger child fired this shot," Kiril Kolikov told BNT – licensed weapons expert.
A fatal shot in which the 49-year-old experienced shooting instructor Nikolay Filipov had no chance.
"This is a 9 by 19 para cartridge, it is one of the strongest. This caliber is not civilian, it is a very serious combat cartridge," Kolikov pointed out.
According to the weapons expert, if there was no cartridge in the barrel and the magazine was removed, the child could not have loaded and fired if he had not been taught to do so. "I can't without knowing what to do with this gun, load it and shoot. This child is taught to handle a weapon if not instructed how to operate it. So it observed what actions were taken to load the weapon and fire it."
Most likely, the child did not suspect that the weapon was loaded and thought he was going to shoot for fun. This is also the assumption of the psychologist Sabka Dyakova – Chekhovych, for whom the tragic incident is a test of the emotional intelligence of society.
"This is a 7-year-old who has no realistic idea of what he is doing. It was probably a game for him, it was probably a way for him to get closer to his father, having his gun, I'm just guessing, but… we need to show empathy," she said.
According to the psychologist, movies and the global network distort children's ideas: "Through the Internet, children get an unrealistic idea of themselves as powerful in relation to weapons."
Public anger should not seek to blame for what happened, that is the job of the investigators, the psychologist also believes.