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Migration Is Becoming Less Spontaneous, More Assisted

Sofia, July 30 (BTA) - Opening an extraordinary meeting of Salzburg Forum police chiefs here on Thursday, Interior Minister Roumyana Buchvarova said that migration is becoming less spontaneous and more assisted and is run by large transborder human trafficking organizations.

The operational level meeting is a follow-up to a Salzburg Forum interior ministers discussion on July 20 during Buchvarova's visit to Brussles to attend a Justice and Home Affairs Council.

Buchvarova outlined two major problems: a need for a standardized statistical methodology and the identification of the organized human trafficking groups that operate in the region.

According to Buchvarova, the movement of such large groups of people is organized in advance. "We are faced with transborder organized crime groups involved in human trafficking which accumulate large financial flows. Once established, they could be involved in other forms of organized crime," said Buchvarova.

According to latest data of Frontex, the pressure via the Eastern Mediterranean route has increased several fold compared to 2014, Interior Ministry Chief Secretary Georgi Kostov said cited by the Ministry. In its monthly report, Frontex analyses some of the reasons for the increased migration flow: tightening of the border control along certain borders, the establishment of a humanitarian corridor between Libya and Italy, a low level of return of illegal migrants, fast legitimization of the stay and a possibility for further travels in the EU.

Since the middle of 2013 Bulgaria has been subjected to an unprecedented pressure. Since the beginning of 2015 the overall migration pressure has increased four times compared to the like period of 2014: 43,706 people, of whom 4,999 have been detained at the border. The pressure is strongest at the Bulgarian-Turkish border: 93 per cent of the attempts for illegal entry in the country. A total of 4,734 people were detained there: 2,751 at the green border and 1,983 at the checkpoints. The expectations are that this tendency will be preserved mostly due to the redirection of flows and the strengthened EU measures in the Mediterranean, Kostov said.

Since the beginning of the year, 4,420 people have been detained in an attempt to leave illegally the country, which is four times up compared to the like period of last year. About 87 per cent of all illegal migrants trying to leave the country illegally have been detained at the Bulgarian-Serbian border.

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