During a police operation early this morning, a vehicle with a Bulgarian driver and 10 illegally residing foreign citizens was stopped near the village of Iganovo near Karlovo. Four Bulgarians were also detained in a jeep that..
A group of 23 illegal migrants, citizens of Syria and Iraq, were detained by the law enforcement authorities in the area of the village of Rakitnitsa near Stara Zagora. The migrants were transported in a bus with Polish..
A car with Polish license plates, driven by a Polish woman and transporting 10 Syrian nationals, was apprehended by police near the town of Dragoman not far from the Bulgaria-Serbia border. No people were reported injured during the police chase...
A police officer, a driver and three migrants are in hospital, after a police van tried to stop a car transporting migrants on Sofia’s ring road. The police officer has sustained a life-threatening cranio-cerebral injury. The crash occurred..
The Bulgarian authorities report increased migrant pressure towards Bulgaria. Since the beginning of the year, Border Police officers have detained 1,686 illegal crossings of the border and prevented over 110,000 attempts by immigrants to enter the..
Bulgaria has expressed its intention to welcome 100-150 migrants from those currently residing in Cyprus, Cypriot Interior Minister Nicos Nouris announced. The Mediterranean country holds the unwanted first place in the EU in terms of..
12 people have been detained for trafficking migrants on the territory of the towns of Plovdiv, Harmanli, Sredets, Burgas and Haskovo, deputy appellate prosecutor Rumen Popov has announced. 22 migrants, who used the traffickers’ services, have..
A speeding van was intercepted by police on Sofia’s ring road and a car chase ensued after the driver failed to stop when the police signaled him to do so. At the town of Kostinbrod near Sofia the driver slowed down and jumped from the..
The police have apprehended a group of 50 migrants near the village of Krushevets, Burgas region, on the main road to Krushevets. The migrants say that they are Syrian, and that they were waiting to be picked up by several vans. The group includes..
A car carrying 10 illegal migrants caught fire and burned down near the 99th kilometer of the Trakia motorway in the direction of Sofia, public broadcaster BNT reports. The incident was reported around 15:30. Increase in the number of foreign..
