More and more people are trying to enter the European Union irregularly via the Bulgarian-Turkish border. According to Bulgarian information, the number of arrests this year has increased by 70 percent compared to the same period last year; a large human smuggling ring has also been discovered.
Four people, including the alleged gang leader, have been arrested, the Bulgarian border police said in a broadcast on Tuesday. Arrests were also made on Tuesday evening during a police raid in the Bulgarian capital Sofia. Sixteen undocumented men aged between 17 and 20 were waiting to continue their journey to Western Europe, the report said.
Meanwhile, an attempt by twelve Syrian citizens to reach Western Europe via Bulgaria and Serbia was discovered on Monday evening. She was caught in a traffic stop.
children on board
There were also children in both stationary cars. On Monday, police discovered 30 illegal migrants in a minibus on the highway near Sofia. Eight of them were in danger of suffocation and were immediately taken to hospital.
Eighteen migrants in Greece were less fortunate. The burned bodies of people near the border with Turkey were discovered on Tuesday in the wildfires in Dadia National Park in northeastern Greece, a spokesman for the fire service said. This region is also often used by migrants as a crossing route from Turkey to the European Union.
“Since no one is missing, we assume they are illegal immigrants,” fire service spokesman Giannis Artopoios told Greek state broadcaster ERT.
Source: Krone
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