Human trafficking in the United States

“Those involved in such activity will be charged with a host of federal laws, including laws against kidnapping, sex trafficking, child abuse, and the deprivation of civil rights”

40 illegal migrants were found in a warehouse near Sofia, Nova TV reported. Police detained three persons sympathetic to the organization for the illegal trafficking of migrants.

Photo: Nikolay Hristov, Bulgarian National Radio

The Bulgarian police took down a human trafficking network from Turkey through Bulgaria to Western Europe.

Five people were detained on the territory of Haskovo. The organizer of the trafficking ring, a Syrian, and four Bulgarian citizens, complicit in the criminal activity, were detained.

According to BNT, the Syrian has humanitarian status in Germany.

The Independent Labor Inspection Authority, as part of a joint European action, carried out inspections at workplaces that present a high probability of cases of human trafficking, for the purpose of labor exploitation.

Illustration. Photo: EPA/MLADEN ANTONOV

"The victims of trafficking are not given compensation, they should receive compensation for the damage done to them," Petya Nestorova, Executive Secretary of the Council of Europe's Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings, told BIRN.

Specialized police action in the streets of Strelbishte.

According to NOVA, it is against drug distribution.

Three people have been detained so far, the MoI confirmed. They were captured at a time of drug trafficking.

Police detained at least 442 migrants in anti-human trafficking operations across Turkey on Nov. 13, security sources told state-run Anadolu Agency.

Nearly 5,000 suspects have been detained in one week across Turkey on terrorism, drug trafficking and smuggling charges, the Interior Ministry said on Nov. 13.

Bodies of eight people, including two children, were found in a car park near a Walmart supermarket in the US city of San Antonio, Texas, BBC reported on Sunday.

A 21-year old Bulgarian man has been arrested in Northern Greece on charges of human trafficking, reported Ekathimerini online edition.

Twenty seven illegal migrants were discovered in the truck driven by the Bulgarian. All of them are Syrian.

The vehicle has been confiscated and the Bulgarian man is expected to be indicted by a prosecutor.