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Intelligence agencies report about moderate risk of radicalization of migrants in Bulgaria

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At a discussion in Sofia aimed at preventing and countering the risks of radicalization and terrorism, deputy chairman of the State Agency for National Security, Oleg Petkov, announced that according to experts on national security, there was a moderate risk of radicalization of illegal migrants in this country . Outgoing Interior Minister Rumyana Bachvarova announced that soon Bulgarian authorities would be able to check the fingerprints of illegal migrants entering not only in the EU database, but in the database of the United States.



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