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 human trafficking across the territory of Bulgaria from Turkey to Serbia and then to Western Europe. The group’s leader has also been apprehended.
The traffickers were paid EUR 2,500 per person for taking the illegal migrants from the border with Turkey to the border with Serbia, EUR 1,500 of which was for the crime group leader. All people who have been charged are Bulgarian. The migrants are from Morocco, Syria and Afghanistan. The operation was conducted in partnership with Europol.
Efforts are being made to help the survivors who remain under the rubble. Rescue teams from around the world are arriving in Turkey and Syria to join the search operations . So far, more than 8,000 survivors have been pulled from the debris...
Citizens protested in front of the European Commission building in Sofia to express their dissatisfaction with the suspension of several Russian TV channels in Bulgaria. The rally was organized by the National Russophile Movement, the National..
On Wednesday the minimum temperatures will be from minus 9 to minus 4°C, in Sofia - around minus 7°C. During the day it will be cloudy over most of the country. In southwestern Bulgaria it will be sunny. Snow will fall north of the Balkans and in the..
Bulgaria’s head of state Rumen Radev has sent a message to Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to offer his condolences for the victims of the..
Two Spartan aircraft have flown to Türkiye to fly rescue teams, Bulgaria's Ministry of Defence announced. The Municipality of Sofia is planning to..
An increase in the number of tourists was reported in January compared to the same month of 2022. A good winter season is expected in..
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