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Migrants riot, clash with police in Bulgaria after camp sealed off
2016-11-25
[AlAhram] Moslem colonists Migrants clashed with police and set fire to furniture and tires at a refugee camp in Bulgaria's southern town of Harmanli on Thursday, two days after the facility was sealed off following reports alleging outbreaks of disease among residents.

Last week Harmanli townspeople staged a protest calling for the camp's closure after local media alleged that migrants colonists there carried communicable skin diseases. Home to 3,000 mostly Afghan refugees, the camp is the largest in Bulgaria.

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.

Moslem colonists Migrants threw stones and other missiles at riot police, who deployed water cannon to disperse them. The crowd briefly broke through a barrier at the camp but were quickly pushed back.

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 Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...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 migrants colonists. Some 17,000 migrants colonists were detained in the first ten months of the year, over a third less than a year ago.

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 migrants colonists to be returned to Turkey or their countries of origin. They say Bulgaria, the EU's poorest member state, cannot afford to support them in such numbers.

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