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Bulgaria denies affirmations of German intelligence about weaknesses related to control over traffickers

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Bulgaria’s Minister of Interior Rumiana Bachvarova denied affirmations of the German intelligence, quoted in German media, about weaknesses regarding control over human traffickers along the Bulgarian-Turkish border. Earlier, German media announced that according to a confidential report of the German cabinet, the inflow of migrants into Europe has been redirected to Bulgaria and that “as a result of the measures taken in the Aegean Sea, the traffickers have started to focus on an alternative route- from Turkey through Bulgaria.




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