Posted on 11/25/2016 3:55:50 AM PST by csvset
HARMANLI, Bulgaria Bulgaria will move migrants who clashed with police at a refugee camp to closed camps and hopes to start extraditing some of them to their native Afghanistan next month, Prime Minister Boiko Borisov said on Friday.
More than 400 asylum seekers, angered at being confined at the camp in the southern town of Harmanli near the border with Turkey over a health scare, were arrested after clashes with riot police late on Thursday.
The police used water cannon and rubber bullets to quell the riot, in which the interior ministry said 24 officers were hurt.
On Friday morning the refugee camp, Bulgaria's largest and home to some 3,000 asylum seekers, looked like a war zone, with broken windows, overturned trash containers and debris.
"Based on an agreement between the European Union and Afghanistan we have asked for a plane to start extraditing people there in early December. As for the rest, all who have acted brutally and violated public order will be moved to closed camps," Borisov told reporters.
More than a million migrants and refugees have entered the European Union over the 15 months, many fleeing conflicts in Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq. Some have entered Bulgaria, an EU member, from Turkey hoping to carry on to wealthy western Europe where most want to settle and build a new life.
"CAMP SHOULD BE CLOSED"
Borisov urged residents of Harmanli to stay calm and to avoid provoking the asylum seekers. A small group of local people waving national flags demanded the camp's closure.
Bulgaria has built a fence along its border with Turkey and has beefed up border controls to deter the migrants. Some 17,000 people were detained in the first 10 months of the year, down by more than a third from the same period in 2015.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
Those racist Bulgarian bastards hate Mexicans! /s
Bulgaria needs to build that fence about twenty feet higher.
Good idea. Trump take note.
The eastern Europeans have awakened. Maybe they will survive this invasion.
“where most want to settle and build a new life.”
Riiiiggghhhht.
L
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.