Does a news article visible on social media claim that a recent double murder followed by suicide in Bulgaria was the result of a vaccinated person being attacked with a psychotronic weapon, then turning violent? No, that's not true: The screenshot shown in a video did not report on vaccines or psychotronic weapon attacks but a family tragedy in which a 71-year-old man killed his wife and daughter.
The claim appeared in a video on TikTok (archived here) published by @ventsiangelovchicagoto on September 19, 2023.
The text overlay (translated from Bulgarian to English by Lead Stories staff) reads:
'People's Party - Truth and the Truth Only'
It begins! The vaccinated are beginning to slaughter their families as a result of psychotronic weapon attacks!
This is what the post looked like on TikTok at the time of writing:
(Source: TikTok screenshot taken on Tue Nov 21 08:23:09 2023 UTC)
The claim was made on a TikTok channel associated with a small Bulgarian party called "People's Party - Truth and the Truth Only." The username on the channel corresponds to the party's chairman, Vencislav Angelov. The party and Angelov are known supporters of conspiracy theories related to COVID-19, denying the existence of the pandemic and opposing COVID-19 vaccines.
Lead Stories did a Google search (archived here) using a phrase from the screenshot of the article, visible in the TikTok video, where part of the name of the media can also be seen. It leads to an article published on September 19, 2023, by the Bulgarian online media Blitz. The article does not mention vaccines, vaccinated individuals or psychotronic weapon attacks -- weapons with alleged mind-altering or mind-controlling effects. Instead, it talks about a 71-year-old man who shot his wife and daughter with a pistol in a double murder followed by a suicide.
Another article on the same incident was published on the website of Bulgaria ON AIR TV on September 19, 2023, which includes a TV news report. According to the article, neighbors said the 71-year-old had developed alcohol problems. The supervising prosecutor from the District Prosecutor's Office in Pazardzhik, Bulgaria, Stoyan Pavlov, said the information they have suggests that "it is a domestic family dispute over a trivial occasion." The article does not mention vaccines or psychotronic weapons.
In another article from September 19, 2023, in 24chasa, witnesses say the elderly man complained of being harassed by the family members he shot.
