More than 300 illegal migrants were detained in Bulgaria during a special operation on 13 July, said Deputy Prosecutor General Maria Pavlova at a press conference.
19 legal cases have been instituted for trafficking. It was announced, at the press conference, that 59 criminal groups of more than 250 individuals dealing in illegal migrant trafficking are being monitored by law enforcement services. In 2020, the number of judicial cases against traffickers was 150, and in 2022 – more than 1,000.
76 illegal migrants were apprehended on Trakia motorway near Chirpan on 14, July, Lazar Hristov, chief of police in Stara Zagora said for the BNR. They are in their early 20s and say they come from Afghanistan. The young men are dehydrated because they were found packed inside a truck. Seven of them have been sent to hospital, the rest have been transported to the refugee centre in Harmanli. The driver of the truck is Bulgarian.
Bulgaria ranks 10 th in Europe, and 25 th in the world in wine production, Sophie Pallas, director of the International Organisation of Vine and Wine (OIV) said in Burgas. She was among the official guests to the 20 th edition of Wine and..
Answering a question what the attitude of the Bulgarian church should be to the church of North Macedonia, the Bulgarian Patriarch said, in an interview with public service TV BNT, that the Holy Synod has a decision from the end of 2022. “We approved..
In answer to a question by Nova TV whether there will be a difference for Bulgaria if president is Donald Trump or Joe Biden, Bulgaria’s ambassador to the US Georgi Panayotov said the difference was in the nuances. “That is a very important..
A total of 60 officers from the Bezmer and Kabile units are on the ground with equipment for firefighting, Bulgaria's Defence Minister Atanas Zapryanov..
A man and a child have died after they were struck by lightning in the area of Mount Zhultets near Mount Botev in the Central Balkan Mountains. The alert..
I nterior Minister Kalin Stoyanov and Prime Minister Dimitar Glavchev today visited the heavily fire-affected village of Voden and expressed their..
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