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The District Prosecutor's Office-Pazardzhik charged and detained a driver of a car for helping 54 migrants from Afghanistan cross the country illegally, announced the spokesperson of the Appellate Prosecutor's Office in Plovdiv, Boryana Dimitrova, BTA reports.

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The prosecutor's office specifies that on March 16, 2023, around 9:00 a.m., 67 km from the Trakia highway in the direction of Sofia, a police patrol stopped a Mercedes minibus for inspection, driven by a Bulgarian citizen with the initials P.V. (35 years old).

It was established that 54 foreigners - citizens of Afghanistan, all men - were traveling in the cargo area of ​​the van.

Among them were two boys who had not reached the age of 16.

They were put in the car in the area of ​​Yambol region.

The goal was to transport them to Sofia and then continue to Serbia.

The car is owned by the driver.

The accused P.V.

is detained for up to 72 hours by decree of the supervising prosecutor.

The District Prosecutor's Office-Pazardzhik is about to submit a request to the court to take a measure of remand "in custody" against him.

Illegal migrants were detained in the capital city.

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A reference in the information bulletins of the Ministry of the Interior shows that at the end of August 2022, a jeep carrying illegal migrants set itself on fire on the Trakia highway in the Pazardzhik region.

Ten illegal migrants were found not far from the scene of the accident.

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