One hundred Defense Ministry employees will join the additional forces at the border, Interior Minister Ivan Demerjiev said
“Today, the so-called human traffickers have declared war on the Bulgarian state and the Bulgarian state will respond to this challenge with all its strength,” he said on Thursday Acting Minister of the Interior Ivan Demerjiev, commenting on the accident in which two police officers were killed after a bus driver carrying irregular migrants rammed the bus into their patrol car in Burgas, on the Black Sea. The minister pointed out that two people from a refugee camp were involved in the accident.
“We will do everything possible to prevent this accident from happening again,” the minister said, adding that border protection would be strengthened. Demerjiev said arrests had been made and police were looking for another suspect. The arrested suspects are three Syrian and two Bulgarian citizens.
Over the next few days, 100 of his employees Ministry of Defense will join the additional forces at the border, Ivan Demerjiev said after noting that he had ordered police authorities to thoroughly check both refugee centers for persons who dare to engage in such activities and settlements where there is evidence that such persons reside there.
“These checks will be carried out very carefully and quickly and these people will either be brought before the court or return to their place of origin because it turned out that for the most part, the so-called traffickers are foreigners residing in Bulgaria. We will not allow them to stay in our country and carry out such activities. We aspire to finish the matter with them within the next week and their activities will end accordingly.”Demerjiev said.
In total, 7,630 citizens of third countries were detained between January and July this year, of which 834 entered, 1,053 exited through the country’s borders without being registered, and 5,743 were found to be staying illegally inside the country, according to Interior Ministry statistics on the state of of immigration that were made public today. The numbers recorded this year are more than double compared to the corresponding period last year, when a total of 3,673 irregular migrants were detained, the Bulgarian News Agency reports.
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