The driver of the bus with migrants, who crashed into a police patrol near Sofia yesterday, never had a driver's license.

This was announced by the spokesperson of the Sofia City Prosecutor's Office, Desislava Petrova, to "The Day Begins".

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"He was never issued a driver's license by the Bulgarian authorities, he is not registered as a motor vehicle driver. This is according to the report we have from the authorities," she said.

The man has a rich criminal past and has been convicted of various crimes - theft, hooliganism, fraud.

His most recent thefts are in recidivism.

He suffered punishments for his crimes, Petrova said.

According to the provisions of the law, the sentence for embezzlement can be imprisonment for up to 10 years, and for intentionally causing bodily harm to the employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs - up to 12 years, the spokesperson of the SGP also pointed out.

It was categorically established that the police car did not block the bus with the migrants, she said.

"The police patrol was on an island, but did not block the way of the bus. At the moment when the driver of the bus with migrants turned right, we think he was moving at 100-130 km/h - he lost control of the vehicle, hit into the guardrail, crawls along it, enters the mud and hits the police bus that has stopped in a safe place. The migrants themselves testify to this. The other thing they say is that they did not feel the driver's brake mechanism being activated," Petrova pointed out.

The detained migrants, who are not in hospital, are 10 Syrian nationals and two people from Yemen.

They did not stay long in Bulgaria - they boarded the bus about 3-4 kilometers after the border.

"They traveled in the direction of Central Europe, their goal was not to settle in Bulgaria. They cannot indicate where exactly they entered our country, before that they were in Turkey," Desislava Petrova said.

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