Interior Ministry Chief Secretary, chief commissioner Petar Todorov and deputy Chief Secretary Stanimir Stanev have resigned , Petar Todorov has announced. The reason is the latest incident in which a police officer was injured during the attempted..
A total of 12,740 illegal migrants have been detained in Bulgaria for the first nine months of 2022, as more of 2,800 of them were detained in September . This is what the statistics of the Ministry of the Interior show. 1,855..
37 illegal immigrants were detained during two police raids in Bulgaria’s capital Sofia, the BNR reported. The first group consisted of 31 people who claimed they were Syrian nationals. The second group consisted of 6 people- five..
Deyan Mollov, deputy director of General Directorate Border Police, has resigned. Interior Minister Ivan Demerdzhiev demanded his resignation after the Burgas incident, in which a bus of illegal migrants killed two policemen. Mollov's resignation was..
During a police operation in Pomorie last night, the police detained two men with a criminal record, aged 44 and 47, for harbouring refugees. In the course of three days the two men concealed 9 refugees without identity documents, purporting..
Two groups of migrants have been detained in the past week near the village of Voneshta Voda in the Pass of the Republic, Yanko Parvanov, Mayor of Voneshta Voda said for the BNR. The first group of illegal migrants consisted of 11 people. They were..
Seven people have been arrested after a police operation aimed at breaking up an organized criminal group that trafficked illegal migrants across the country, the Ministry of Interior said at a briefing. The group was led by an..
The Sofia Metropolitan Directorate of the Interior is conducting an operation against illegal migrants abandoned in Sofia by traffickers . According to information obtained by the BNR, at least 10 persons have so far been detained who say they..
200 illegal migrants were intercepted at the border last night while trying to enter Bulgaria. Between 10 and 15 people were detained, this country’s caretaker Minister of Interior Boyko Rashkov announced in the National Assembly. In his words, the..
More than 70 illegal migrants have been detained in Sofia in the course of three days -July 31st, August 1st and August 2, it was reported The police have told BNR that in recent weeks illegal migrants are detained every day in the capital..
