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.
The Central Election Commission asked Bulgaria’s caretaker Minister of Interior Ivan Demerdzhiev how to proceed on election day if school buildings receive bomb threats . Many polling stations are set up in school and university premises...
Grain growers from across the country are organising a three-day national protest on 29, 30 and 31 March , organised by the National Association of Grain Growers. The reasons for the protest are the uncontrolled import of grain from Ukraine, the low..
On Wednesday , the minimum temperatures will range between minus 3 to 2°C, in Sofia around minus 2°C. It will be cold and windy during the day. Cloudiness will be changeable and in some places, mainly in eastern Bulgaria,..
The principals of 16 schools in Sofia and dozens in Burgas and Varna received threatening emails about planted explosive devices. In..
The main version of investigators working on case with the bomb threat e-mails sent to schools in Bulgaria is that they are hybrid..
A round table on the topic of "The Future of Natural Gas in Southeastern Europe" takes place on March 28 in Sofia and is organized by..
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