“The number of incoming illegal immigrants in Bulgaria has now been reduced several times,” Defence Minister Angel Naydenov told a news conference in the border village of Golyam Dervent.
Bulgaria is building a razor wire fence on a 30-kilometre (19-mile) stretch of the country’s border with Turkey, which it claims is to try to stop illegal immigration.
The three-metre-high fence is expected to be ready by February. It it will run mainly through forested, hilly areas where visibility for border patrols is limited.
During the Cold War, Bulgaria’s barbed-wire borders prevented its citizens from fleeing to the West, but after the country joined Nato in 2004 all fences were removed.
“The number of incoming illegal immigrants in Bulgaria has now been reduced several times,” Defence Minister Angel Naydenov told a news conference in the border village of Golyam Dervent.
“We have enhanced the border patrols, had additional activities in border surveillance, backed by the presence of the troops right here (in the village of Golyam Dervent).
“I’d like to add something else. No illegal immigrants have entered Bulgarian territory in that particular controlled area.”
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