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.
For the 4th day in a row, bomb alerts have been received by email at a number of schools across the country. Hundreds of students in Sofia, Varna, Burgas, Veliko Tarnovo, Stara Zagora, Pleven, Sliven, Dobrich have been evacuated. Bomb threats..
At an extraordinary evening meeting, the Central Election Commission (CEC) tasked experts to check 446 voting machines that will be used during the forthcoming elections on April 2 . The aim is to ensure that there will be no..
Five political formations would enter Parliament if elections were held today, indicate data of a nationally representative survey conducted by Alfa Research polling agency. The coalitions GERB-SDS and We Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria are..
The Bulgarian institutions should not allow an extension of the decision adopted by the Council of the EU in May 2022 on the..
The winner in the election will be decided by the votes of the last-minute decision-makers. If the early parliamentary elections were..
The winner in Sunday’s election for parliament remains unclear, a survey by Trend agency shows. The margin between GERB-SDS and We Continue the..
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