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Sliven police capture illegal immigrants bound for Greece

Fri, Nov 06 2009 14:38 CET byNick Iliev 1040 Views 3 Comments
Authorities in Sliven, southeastern Bulgaria, arrested five illegal immigrants hidden in a lorry bound for Greece, the Interior Ministry said on November 6 2009.

The five men, two of them from Iraq and the other three from Iran, aged 17 to 41, had no identification papers on them, and were seriously dehydrated, one of them in serious condition. All five foreigners were given medical assistance, while one man has been put on support systems.

They are currently held at the police station and will be transferred to a refugee centre. It is still unclear what kind of status they will be granted as the due process is set to last 30 days. Reportedly, the five men have requested political refugee status.

Following an investigation, it was concluded that the 58 year-old driver of the lorry, which has Turkish licence plates, was innocent and not a member of a human trafficking ring.

According to Dimitar Kolev, head of the ministry's migration department, the five refugees had given a detailed report on the traffickers, which will be shared with Turkish authorities.

Only one of the refugees apparently had a passport, which was confiscated and destroyed by the traffickers upon their arrival in Turkey. The men had crossed the Iraq-Turkish frontier on foot.

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Anonymous Valeri Tue, Nov 10 2009 03:02 CET
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The problem is that this is part of the larger picture of demographic warfare on Christian Europe.
One by one - every person has a tragic story, for sure - there will be more and more Muslims coming to Europe until one fine day we'll all have to kiss our freedoms goodbye.
One cannot live in a country with overwhelming majority of Muslims and still be socially free...

Anonymous Vanessa Mon, Nov 09 2009 09:02 CET
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I believe political refugees who have had a difficult journey from Iran and Iraq will most likely be very happy indeed to be on comparatively sane Bulgarian soil, whether in the mahala or not.

Anonymous Ivan Mon, Nov 09 2009 08:10 CET
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why not detain them in the local gypsy ghetto - they sure as hell would want to return back home its not much like the pictures of the west they have seen and dreamed about

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