Caretaker Interior Minister Ivan Demerdzhiev will resign only if President Rumen Radev asks him to, he himself announced in Elhovo, where he attended the ceremony in memory of the border guard Petar Bachvarov who was killed on Monday. Requests for him..
A border police officer was shot dead while patrolling the border with Turkey in the region of Golyam Dervent village in the vicinity of the Lesovo- Hamzabeyli border checkpoint. The incident took place at around 8.35 on Monday night. The..
About 1,000 migrants are detained in Bulgaria every day, mainly coming from Afghanistan and Syria , Deputy Chief Secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Stanimir Stanev told Nova TV. According to him, they are extremely mobile and well..
Deyan Mollov, deputy director of General Directorate Border Police, has resigned. Interior Minister Ivan Demerdzhiev demanded his resignation after the Burgas incident, in which a bus of illegal migrants killed two policemen. Mollov's resignation was..
The police in Burgas have detained a Syrian citizen while trying to escape. The man was involved in the trafficking of the illegal migrants from the bus which crashed into a police car, killing two police officers early this morning. He is living in..
A border police officer has found six illegal immigrants in a hiding place on the floor of a van during an inspection of the Kapitan Andreevo border checkpoint , the Ministry of Interior announced. The vehicle was driven by a Turkish citizen who was..
25 migrants from Afghanistan have been detained on the Thrace highway near the village of Vakarel, Sofia region. They had probably been abandoned by traffickers. Officals from the Ministry of Interior told the BNR that the refugees were spotted walking..
186 gas pistols and more than 7,000 rounds of ammunition were seized by the Bulgarian border police at the Kapitan Andreevo border checkpoint, the Haskovo District Prosecutor's Office said. The weapons and ammunition were hidden in a van with French..
The court case against four Bulgarian border police officers, which is being tried in Turkey, has been postponed until 6 July. The court in Kırklareli accepted the request of the defence attorney of the Bulgarian officers for the ruling of the..
The holiday trip to Greece has been allowed since Monday, June 15, but it currently means getting trapped in a kilometer-long queue at the border for thousands of travellers. Even before the opening of the border, the Bulgarian authorities..
