80 illegal migrants crammed into a TIR truck have been discovered by the police on the Trakia highway near the town of Pazardzhik. The truck has a Turkish registration, and the driver, a 34-year-old Serbian citizen, has been detained. The migrants..
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..
A drop-off point for illegal migrants near Sofia has been crashed as part of a nationwide action against migrant trafficking. More than 40 migrants were arrested. Three persons who organised the trafficking have also been detained, BNR has learned...
After a police chase, 18 illegal migrants were discovered in a hiding place inside a truck, the Interior Ministry directorate in Burgas has announced. At around 9 AM this morning, a truck and a pilot car refused to pull over after being..
Britain will address Bulgaria and Turkey in efforts to tackle the crisis with migrants crossing the Channel in small boats. At the meeting of the European Political Community in Moldova, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will call on..
Since the beginning of 2023, the number of illegal migrants entering Bulgaria has increased by more than a third as compared to the same period last year. In that respect, Bulgaria’s caretaker Minister of Interior Ivan Demerdzhiev announced in..
The police apprehended one more group of illegal migrants last night when they pulled over a van in Sofia’s Nadezhda residential area. According to unconfirmed information, the 20 refugees are from Syria. The driver is a Romanian citizen, he..
Police officers from Sofia detained 44 illegal migrants in the course of three operations, the Bulgarian news agency BTA reports. 21 persons were found hidden in a house in the region of West Park, among them two children. The police stopped a van..
A vehicle with foreign license plates carrying illegal migrants from Afghanistan overturned near the Aldomirovo Swamp near Dragoman. One migrant has died and 14 have been injured. The incident occurred at midnight when the driver, a Serbian..
The migrant pressure on Bulgaria since the beginning of the year has increased by 40% compared to the same period last year , Caretaker Interior Minister Ivan Demerdzhiev announced to BNR. He added that 2022 was a record year – with three times the..
