site.btaInterior Ministry Reports Significant Increase in Migrant Pressure since Early 2022

Since the beginning of the year, the Ministry of Interior has prevented over 34,000 attempts to smuggle migrants across the southern Bulgarian border, Chief Secretary of the Ministry of Interior, Petar Todorov, told journalists after a hearing on the topic of migrant pressure, held together with State Agency for National Security head Plamen Tonchev before the Parliamentary Committee for Control of Security Services. For comparison, Todorov gave an example with the first quarter of 2021, when the number of prevented attempts to cross the Bulgarian border from the south was about 7,500.