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Bulgaria Returns Afghan Migrants To Greece

30th May, 2016 · admin 2 Comments

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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

May 29, 2016

Bulgaria has returned dozens of migrants detained aboard a freight train from Greece back to its southern neighbor.

The migrants returned on May 29 included 56 Afghans. It was the first time Bulgaria had deported migrants to Greece.

A separate group of some 40 Syrians and Iraqis detained on May 28 were expected to be deported at a later date.

The migrants were all detained on May 28 in what was the largest number of people caught trying to enter the Eastern European country since the start of the migrant crisis.

“We have sent a strong message to traffickers who are exploiting these unfortunates,” Bulgarian Interior Minister Rumyana Bachvarova said after the Afghan migrants were returned to Greece.

Greece’s border with Macedonia, just to the west, is now effectively closed to migrants, sparking fears in Bulgaria that they may instead try to transit its territory on their way north.

Bulgaria shares a 500-kilometer border with Greece.

Based on reporting by AFP and Reuters

Copyright (c) 2016. RFE/RL, Inc. Reprinted with the permission of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave NW, Ste 400, Washington DC 20036.
Posted in EU-Afghanistan Relations, Refugees and Migrants |
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2 thoughts on “Bulgaria Returns Afghan Migrants To Greece”

  1. Ali Goali says:
    May 30, 2016 at 4:25 pm

    The poor Bulgarians will do the fancy dance to any one with a little bit of economic and political incentives.

    If the US tell them to behave; then, their political authorities will immediately bow down to their knees.

  2. Ali Goali says:
    May 30, 2016 at 4:57 pm

    And, the Anglo/US warmongers and megalomaniacs geo-politics and savage military adventures are the sole cause of those exodus.

    Why folks would want to leave the comfort and loyalties of the home countries to get humiliated like this by a bunch of low lives.

    The arrogant powers have their own criminal agendas to excecute- it is all parasatic at all of its levels..

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