Bulgarian Border Police chief: Migrant-hunting ‘somewhat illegal’

Bulgaria’s Border Police chief has described the scenes on an amateur video of migrants being captured by private citizens and forced back to Turkey as “somewhat illegal”.

The video, watched by many people since being posted on social networks and in the Bulgarian media, shows three young men forced to the ground and their arms bound behind them with plastic packaging ties.

The video was posted on the Facebook page of one of the men involved in the capture of the group.

On the soundtrack, a man is heard saying, in a mixture of English and Bulgarian, “Turkey! Back! Go back! Back, Turkey! Now!”...
 [sofiaglobe.com]
11/4/16
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