Bodyguard face-off video: Putin's, S. African security scuffle at BRICS ...

A scandalous incident was barely averted at the BRICS summit in South Africa as Russian President Vladimir Putin’s guards had a row with local security officers, who refused to let them into the building.
While President Putin and his counterpart South African President Jacob Zuma were securing important deals, friendship and cooperation were nowhere to be seen on the sidelines of the summit. The South African security officers guarding the meeting apparently took their task extremely seriously, cutting off Putin’s security team at the entrance and ordering them out.

In a video shot by journalists outside, Putin enters the building with his Russian security guards following him, but shortly afterwards a South African guard wearing a military uniform prevented several Russian guards from entering.

At first, the Russians tried to resist, explaining that they were “the Russian delegation,” but the South African guard shouted “Out! Out!”