Border police officers from the Calafat Border Crossing Point have detected 62 Syrian citizens hiding in a special place in the semi-trailer of a truck and inside the cargo compartment of a lorry, the General Inspectorate of Border Police informs.

33 migrants were discovered two days ago at the Calafat Border Crossing Point. A truck, registered in Lithuania, was driven by a 33-year-old Lithuanian driver, who was transporting bags of flower soil and decorative bark on the Bulgaria-Hungary route.

Hidden in the semi-trailer were 33 people, 31 men and two women, all from Syria, who had apparently boarded the truck in Sofia, Bulgaria.

On Wednesday, at the same border crossing point, a 48-year-old Turkish national, driving a truck, registered in Turkey, presented himself on the inbound to the country. The driver was transporting pieces of furniture on the Turkey-Germany route with the Turkish customs seal. Following the risk analysis, border guards carried out a thorough check on the lorry and found that the customs seal had been broken and glued. In the cargo compartment the border police discovered 29 people hiding, 27 men and two women. None of them had identity documents, but they verbally declared themselves to be Syrian citizens and got into the truck in a parking lot in Sofia, Bulgaria.

The Turkish driver was banned from entering Romania for a period of 5 years.

All 62 Syrian citizens, the drivers and the means of transport were taken over by the Bulgarian Border Police for further investigation.

AGERPRES