Ministry of Interior

An organized crime group for racketeering and drug trafficking was detained in a special operation in the Burgas region, the prosecution announced. The action was organized and conducted jointly by the Specialized Prosecutor's Office and the DGCOC.

Sofia. As of today, Bulgaria will refuse entry/stay in its territory to third-country nationals in respect of whom an alert for refusal of entry or stay has been issued in the Schengen Information System (SIS), said the Ministry of Interior press office.

A fisherman's body was found in Struma river near the village of Cherniche. A signal was filed at 10.30 am, Yordanka Sharkova, spokeswoman for the Ministry of Interior, Blagoevgrad, told BTA.

Together with another man they were on night fishing.

The drowned man is from Dupnitsa.
 
On-site investigations are carried out to clarify the causes of the incident.

A fire destroyed almost completely the so-called "Royal Stables" in Sofia. The fire broke out very early in the morning, and the flames destroyed about 2,000 square feet of roofing of the buildings in the complex. Eight firefighter teams and more than 30 firefighters were suppressing the fiery element.

The Bulgarian authorities are stopping access to people on the territory of the country if they were banned from entering the Schengen area from 1 August, the Ministry of Interior announced on Friday.

Parliament passed final legislative amendments against sport hooliganism at second reading. They were approved in a hurry because of the start of the football championship, notes BTA.

Prime Minister Boyko Borisov held a telephone conversation with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. "We have the deepest sympathy for the victims and relatives of those who died in the fires in Greece.

A 50-year-old man was shot in the underpass at Gotse Delchev Blvd in the capital. He was taken to the hospital for receive medical assistance, no details of his condition were reported.
 

The District Prosecutor's Office in Varna detained for up to 72 hours two men raising marijuana and high-risk narcotic substances in laboratory conditions for distribution.

SOFIA, July 10 (Xinhua) -- Bulgarian authorities have neutralized an illegal factory for the production of chopped tobacco and arrested five suspects, the country's Ministry of Interior said in a statement here on Tuesday.