The migrant pressure on Bulgaria since the beginning of the year has increased by 40% compared to the same period last year , Caretaker Interior Minister Ivan Demerdzhiev announced to BNR. He added that 2022 was a record year – with three times the..
18 migrants from Afghanistan died of suffocation in a truck near Sofia, the Bulgarian Ministry of Interior has reported. It is believed that there were more than 50 people in the truck. The bodies were found in the abandoned vehicle near the village..
Police detained seven illegal migrants in central Sofia on Friday night, the BTA reported. The migrants were found in two cars. Three Bulgarian nationals were also arrested during the police operation. The early evidence suggests that the..
Fifty illegal migrants were detained in the town of Karlovo , Central Bulgaria, the BTA informed. They were found inside a truck near a large retail store, Plovdiv police spokesperson Aneliya Vlahinova said. Two drivers were also detained. One..
70 illegal migrants were intercepted on Trakia motorway on Saturday night. The migrants were found in a van on a parking lot near the town of Sliven. They were transported by two Romanian citizens. The migrants, aged between 13 and 38, said they..
The General Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and the prosecutor’s office broke up a migrant trafficking network. Charges have been brought against 7 persons, of whom data exists that they are part of an organized crime group assisting..
The European Commission expects the Bulgarian authorities to conduct a full investigation into the case of the Syrian man shot at the border with Turkey, spokesperson Anita Hipper said. No shots were fired by Bulgarian officers at a..
The Bulgarian G endarmerie detained 14 illegal migrants from Syria, Libya and Tunisia in a private ambulance near the village of Draka, Burgas Municipality . The ambulance driver, a thirty-one-year-old man from Sofia, was dressed as a paramedic,..
Two people were injured after last night's chase between police and a SUV carrying 18 illegal migrants on the road between Elhovo and Burgas. An Iraqi woman and a Syrian child were slightly injured in the incident. The driver, a Georgian, was..
In a letter to the MPs, the caretaker cabinet proposes amendments to the criminal code connected with harsher penalties for persons involved in the illegal trafficking of migrants. Some of the proposals aim to prevent suspended sentences. The..
