Officials and statesmen have been targeted by terrorists and the like from time immemorial. President Charles de Gaulle of France set a kind of record, surviving numerous attempts on his life. There were a number of attempts on the life of several U.S. presidents. President Abraham Lincoln was shot dead in 1865. President John F. Kennedy fell victim to an assassination in 1963. A terrorist shot and wounded President Ronald Reagan in 1981. Iraqi secret service tried to assassinate President George Bush Sr., in 1993. Were there any attempts on the life of Russian President Putin?
First attempt
The attempt was to have been made on Putin's life while the president was attending the funeral of Anatoly Sobchak in St. Petersburg, on February 24, 2000. Sergei Davydov, a press secretary for the Federal Guard Service (responsible for protecting the president), said that "not a not a psychopath but a certain organization was behind the attempt."
stay tuned for the rest of the attempts