Criminal law

The Sofia City Prosecutor's Office (SCPO) proposed to the prosecutor general Ivan Geshev to submit a request to bring to criminal responsibility the deputy of GERB Daniel Alexandrov.

He is a member of parliament for the first time and is a member of the committee on children, family, youth and sports. He is 31 years old and a competitor in classical wrestling.

Ten illegal migrants from Syria were caught on "Trakia" highway - near the village of Tsaratsovo, Plovdiv region, announced the prosecutor's office.

Detained and charged are two women, both aged 29. They are charged with helping refugees cross the country illegally.

Seven of the eight men arrested recently in the case of the pimping and rape of a 12-year-old girl in Athens have been remanded in pre-trial detention after testifying before an investigating magistrate.

One of the men, a 20-year-old son of another suspect in the case, was released on health grounds, but must report to his local police station once a month.

According to the latest information, two people have died, and it is believed that the perpetrator is also dead.
The police have secured the scene and are gathering further information about the incident.

A Court of Appeal in Tirana extended the pretrial detention of the ethnic Greek mayor-elect of Himare who was arrested over an alleged election crime, state-run broadcaster ERT reported on Thursday.

Fredi Beleri was detained just two days before local elections that were held in southern Albania on May 14 over alleged voter bribery but still won the mayoral race. 

Bulgaria will help Rishi Sunak to stop illegal immigration - under this headline, the newspaper "Times" informs about a new cooperation being prepared between London and Sofia to combat with human traffickers.

Five officers from the Didymoteicho Border Guard Department in northeastern Greece were arrested on Monday after a five-month investigation and charged with smuggling migrants from Turkey, authorities announced on Tuesday.

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11 illegal migrants from Syria were detained near Vladaya after a chase with the Bulgarian police last night.

Two Serbs were also detained - a driver and his companion, who were driving a van in which the migrants were.

SMEDEREVO - Following an order by the Smederevo high public prosecutor's office, a 21-year old man suspected of killing eight and wounding 12 people in a shooting spree in the territory of the Smederevo and Mladenovac municipalities on May 4 was temporarily transferred to a special prison hospital on Tuesday.