The Plovdiv Regional Court has convicted three foreign nationals of organizing the trafficking of migrants across Bulgarian territory, delivering suspended sentences and sizeable fines for the cars used. The penalty is financial as the cars used to..
A truck with illegal migrants was intercepted by the police on the Trakia motorway at the entrance to Sofia on Sunday morning, the BNR’s reporter Nikolay Hristov informed. 86 foreigners without identity documents were found in the vehicle. The..
406 people have been detained for human trafficking, 612 – for drug trafficking in August. More than 3,700 migrants have been detained in this country, most of them from Afghanistan, Syria, Morocco and Pakistan, indicate data from the specialized..
A van transporting migrants crashed on Trakia motorway near Tsalapitsa village in Plovdiv region, the Bulgarian news agency BTA reports. At around 4 AM, a police patrol signalled a van travelling on Trakia motorway in the direction of Sofia to..
Police broke up a major migrant smuggling ring in Sofia. 16 illegal migrants from Afghanistan were detained. They were found in Geo Milev Park in the capital city. According to initial information, four people who were involved in organizing the..
30 migrants were found in a van this morning, abandoned on Trakia motorway in the direction of Sofia. Eight of them were in a coma after being dehydrated and deprived of fresh air. All 30 are male, aged 15-30 and without identity documents...
A minivan transporting 49 illegal residents from Afghanistan, with English license plates, collided with a jeep with Bulgarian registration in the area of Orlov most bridge in Sofia. The driver fled and is being sought. Most of the migrants are..
Measures addressing crime were mapped out at a meeting of representatives of the Interior Ministry and the security services, convened by Prime Minister Nikolay Denkov over the increasing number of serious crimes in the country. Bulgarian..
80 illegal migrants crammed into a TIR truck have been discovered by the police on the Trakia highway near the town of Pazardzhik. The truck has a Turkish registration, and the driver, a 34-year-old Serbian citizen, has been detained. The migrants..
A bus with illegal migrants has crashed on Trakia highway this morning. The police arrived on the spot and found 14 migrants from Afghanistan. Three of them were injured and taken to hospital with minor injuries. The driver fled and is being sought.
