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.
A Bulgarian citizen (Sergei R.) was detained for planning a terrorist attack in Belgium , local media reported referring to a statement by the Federal Prosecutor's Office. Belgian police carried out raids in Brussels and Antwerp against young..
Bulgarian roses have been planted in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. Many Bulgarians and Canadian citizens joined the event, organized by the Consulate General of Bulgaria in Toronto and the Bulgarian-Canadian Society in British Columbia. The..
President Rumen Radev holds a working meeting today with representatives of the Bulgarian grain producers, the press office of the head of state reported. It is expected that Minister of Agriculture Yavor Gechev will also join the talks, BTA has..
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,..
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..
The Central Election Commission asked Bulgaria’s caretaker Minister of Interior Ivan Demerdzhiev how to proceed on election day if school buildings..
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