A couple of Bulgarians – a 53-year-old man and his 53-year-old girlfriend – were arrested in southeastern Poland in an attempt to blackmail refugees from Ukraine, police in the regional city of Lublin said on their Twitter account, Monitor reports.
The actions of the two, presented as citizens of the Republic of Bulgaria, provoked anger and insults in comments below the message. The most radical proposals from readers suggest that Bulgarians be tied to a pole with bare asses and beaten, or taken to Kharkiv in Ukraine and left there.
On Friday afternoon, police officers from the Ukrainian refugee distribution center in Lubicha Krulevska, 8km from the border with Ukraine, spotted four highly stressed women with three children. Earlier, cops saw the women boarding a Mercedes van, and now they were walking excitedly.
Law enforcement officers suggested that something bad might have happened and decided to investigate the case.
During the conversation with the Ukrainian women, it became clear that a man and a woman offered to take them to Germany for free. The women and children got on the bus, but as soon as their benefactors left, they started blackmailing them and demanded 150 euros for each person in the bus. There was a fight, but the women managed to leave the van.
Police responded immediately. The van was found and shortly afterwards the vehicle was detained at the Hrebenne border crossing. The 53-year-old man and the 52-year-old woman, both Bulgarian citizens, were taken to the police station, where they were charged and, according to police, now face up to eight years in prison for attempted fraud.
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