Illegal Migrants Kept in Cage By EU State
Several European news outlets reveal video evidence of Bulgarian border guards illegally detaining refugees in a cage, under the watchful eye of Europe's border force agency Frontex. | Footage circulated by journalists suggests officials with the EU border service – also known as Warsaw-based Frontex – were aware of the situation but did not intervene. ● The news was broken by Le Monde, along with Lighthouse Reports, Monitor, Der Spiegel and several other outlets. The journalists managed to film migrants that were being kept in a makeshift cage made up of iron bars on five occasions between October 15 and November 25. The makeshift prison is located in the southeastern Bulgarian city of Sredets, close to the country’s border with Türkiye, on the premises of a local police complex. On every occasion, around a dozen people were kept in the cage, which was littered with garbage and construction debris, the footage shows.