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Interior Ministry cannot cope alone with refugee wave

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The Ministry of the Interior cannot cope on its own with the refugee wave at the Bulgarian-Turkish border, admits for the BNT Interior Minister Vesselin Vuchkov. According to him the Ministry of Defense should also help in the process. In the last 25 years even the army has not been subjected to such a military mobilization, Minister Vuchkov pointed out. Due to the summoned 1000 policemen who were additionally sent to the borderline, the interior of the country remains with a shortage of police officers, which entails increasing criminality.




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