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Fri, Feb 10 2012
Sliven police capture illegal immigrants bound for Greece
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.
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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no body know how they suffer .they spend very hard jernoy.
but abt muslem they never change there ways,if they marry anyone after they make emotionl there wife and forse them to be muslem.if they are agree to change religion i think goverment to hav pride
Why you guys have so much hate for this muslim people??!!
Have you ever lived among those people, for a short time at least ?
Have you ever visited a muslim country such as Turkey, Iran, Soudi Arabia, Jordan not to mention Dubai etc etc.........
Are you sure you know everything to know about Muslims? And even if you think you know, read or heard something aboutthe history of muslim people, do you know for sure that what you know is not false or fabricated during the course of history for special interest and [...]
Read the full comment purposes from some nations?
You think that by keeping them far will make us more protected and free?!
Why do we have to be afraid and scare from them and they are not from us?!
If we consider them enemy we will never feel free. I think it is better to learn to live with them and only then we will have a better world to live in peace and true social freedom for all.
Hate will never never us or them for a better life and for a better future.
Think about it my friends......
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...
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.
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