Valery Simeonov

Valeri Simeonov is Deputy Prime Minister for Economic and Demographic Policy until 16 commented on the state of the fence along the border with Turkey and the murder of the border policeman from Elhovo.

He is adamant that the facility is very well designed, but has not been maintained for 1.5 years.

This is what he said to Radio Plovdiv.

"The fence was doing its job perfectly until April 2021 and the refugee flow was zero," he said.

According to him, responsibility for the "complete neglect of the facility" rests with prime ministers and ministers who ruled after April last year, as well as the president.

Among the responsible officials, he named the regional governors in the service governments and in the "Petkov" office, whose duty it was to maintain the facility.

According to Simeonov, the regional governors "did not know where the fence was".

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He also explicitly pointed out the leaderships of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Border Police.

According to him, there are random people in the Ministry of Internal Affairs who have not seen the fence and do not know where it is.

The former deputy prime minister believes that if the facility is maintained and has working cameras and thermal sensors there is no need for a large gathering of border troops.

But, if the facility is not maintained, then the presence of more people is imperative, he pointed out.

"There are cameras and thermal sensors, but they don't work because there are random people in the Ministry of Internal Affairs," he stressed.

He rejected the explanations of the leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs that there are no cameras because the public procurement is delayed.

According to the former deputy prime minister, public contracts are not announced for such facilities.

He also rejected the government's claim that the migrant pressure on the country is the greatest.

"There is no bigger flow than 2015, at the moment they are lying that it is the biggest flow. The current one is many times smaller," said Simeonov.

He believes that at the moment the entire structure of the Border Police is broken by disastrous shifts and ridiculous decisions.

What needs to be done is a second row of fence as the original design was.

According to the former deputy prime minister, the Special Forces should be sent to the border because they are the best prepared and equipped.

According to Valery Simeonov

Valeri Simeonov is the Deputy Prime Minister for Economic and Demographic Policy until 16 the shooting at the border patrol was from Bulgarian, not Turkish territory, because the fence was placed further from the border.

He claimed that the police were prohibited from using weapons or other force against the migrants, as well as from returning the refugees, and that the president had ordered that the flow not be impeded.

These economic immigrants cross with the assistance of border guards.

That's why the two policemen in Burgas, who were hit by a bus earlier, died," said the NFSB leader

The National Front for the Salvation of Bulgaria (NFSB) is a Bulgarian nationalist political party.

"The case with the shot policeman is deeper – either it was paid to push the group, or it was changed with other people. Something more serious will come out. The management is full of random people," he added.

Valery Simeonov

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