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Migrants riot, clash with police in Bulgaria after camp sealed off | |
2016-11-25 | |
[AlAhram] Last week Harmanli townspeople staged a protest calling for the camp's closure after local media alleged that The head of the Bulgarian Refugee Agency, which runs the camp and took the decision to close it to allow health authorities to investigate, told Bulgarian National Radio that these reports were false. "An artificially created tension led to this, following misleading reports that the centre is a hearth of infection," Petya Parvanova said. She was on her way to Harmanli, she said. The protesters damaged several buildings, including the camp's cantine, and set fire to tires, mattresses and broken furniture. Firefighters were deployed to the scene, along with additional police forces. "The riot had started at noon but the situation has been already brought under control," the interior ministry's spokeswoman told Rooters. "Negotiations between the authorities and the protesters are underway." There were no reports of arrests or of any injuries. Bulgaria has built a fence on its border with ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and has bolstered its border controls to prevent inflows of illegal Despite the decreasing numbers, Bulgarian nationalists staged several protests in recent months calling for the immediate closure of all refugee centres in Bulgaria, and for
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