The Plovdiv Regional Court has convicted three foreign nationals of organizing the trafficking of migrants across Bulgarian territory, delivering suspended sentences and sizeable fines for the cars used. The penalty is financial as the cars used to..
A truck with illegal migrants was intercepted by the police on the Trakia motorway at the entrance to Sofia on Sunday morning, the BNR’s reporter Nikolay Hristov informed. 86 foreigners without identity documents were found in the vehicle. The..
30 migrants were found in a van this morning, abandoned on Trakia motorway in the direction of Sofia. Eight of them were in a coma after being dehydrated and deprived of fresh air. All 30 are male, aged 15-30 and without identity documents...
More than 300 illegal migrants were detained in Bulgaria during a special operation on 13 July, said Deputy Prosecutor General Maria Pavlova at a press conference. 19 legal cases have been instituted for trafficking. It was announced, at the..
Fifty-four migrants from Afghanistan have been detained during a roadside check on Trakia motorway. All are male, and include two boys under the age of 16. The migrants were found in the cargo compartment of a bus with a 35-year old..
A vehicle transporting 10 Syrian migrants was intercepted on Trakia motorway near the village of Lozen, Sofia district. The driver, a Syrian national, was detained as well. The van was intercepted during a Border Police operation, the..
A policeman was detained on Wednesday morning on Trakia motorway near the town of Plovdiv while driving a van carrying 31 migrants. The detainee has admitted that he transported migrants several times, the District Prosecutor's Office-Plovdiv said...
70 illegal migrants were intercepted on Trakia motorway on Saturday night. The migrants were found in a van on a parking lot near the town of Sliven. They were transported by two Romanian citizens. The migrants, aged between 13 and 38, said they..
The same company is behind one of the problematic sections of Bulgaria's Trakia Motorway and the repair of the emblematic yellow paving stones boulevard in Sofia, Caretaker Regional Minister Ivan Shishkov told BNT. According to him, the problem..
Bulgarian police officers detained a car driver transporting four foreign nationals. A patrol car was hit during the police chase on Trakia motorway. No people were reported injured. According to initial information, the vehicle was driven by..
