Working Prime Minister Dimitar Glavchev checks the current state of the fence along the Bulgarian-Turkish state border.
The Prime Minister, accompanied by the Minister of Defense Atanas Zapryanov, the Minister of Internal Affairs Atanas Ilkov, the director of the "Border Police" Ch. Commissioner Anton Zlatanov and the Chief of Defense Admiral Emil Eftimov, is in a helicopter that flies over the facility to check whether there are compromised sections and whether there is a need for video surveillance. This was reported by the press service of the Council of Ministers on its page in Facebook.
From the beginning of the year to September 9, attempts of 40,210 people to enter the country through the Bulgarian-Turkish border were detected, the Acting Minister of the Interior Atanas Ilkov announced in response to a parliamentary question in September, the BNR recalls. >