Controversial Bulgarian Presidential Candidate Bodes 'Bloody' Elections

Bulgarian businessman, ex-secret agent and presidential hopeful Aleksei Petrov has reported he and his supporters were intimidated by armed men at a campaign gathering.

Saturday Petrov announced that armed people broke Friday evening into his apartment in his home town of Teteven, while he was holding a meeting with supporters.

According to him, the swift and competent actions of security, police and ordinary citizens has prevented "a bloody shooting."

"What happened last night only shows that the October 23 presidential and local elections will not only be unfair, but might actually turn bloody," commented Petrov.

He vowed that his team will inform all relevant international institutions about the incident.

Petrov commented that the incident is telling about the harmful nature of the rule of Bulgarian PM Boyko Borisov's center right GERB party, which he described as self-serving and deleterious to the security and economic prosperity of Bulgarian citizens.

Ex-agent, university professor and businessman Aleksei Petrov was spectacularly arrested in February 2010, and has been tried since that year on multiple counts of leading an organized crime group involved in drug traffic, prostitution and tax evasion.

He has been branded by Bulgarian Minister of Interior Tsvetan Tsvetanov as leading the most extensive criminal network in the country, nicknamed 'the Octopus.'

In the 1990s, Petrov was a business partner with PM Boyko Borisov, with whom he shares a past in the Bulgarian security business and sports circles.

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