The 29-year-old Syrian and four of his aides from Bulgaria are accused of smuggling and helping illegal migrants to stay in Plovdiv
Gentle and inconspicuous. This is how the neighbors describe the Syrian Masoud Abdo, arrested in Plovdiv as head of the migrant smuggling channel, arrested on 25 August after Omar Adnan ran over two policemen in Burgas with a bus.
29-year-old Masoud Abdo has already been charged by the Plovdiv District Prosecutor’s Office along with four other Bulgarians, including a woman. The remaining 7 detainees on Tuesday were interrogated as witnesses and released.
Masoud and his aides organized the trafficking and helped 24 refugees from Syria, Afghanistan and Morocco to remain illegally in Plovdiv. Among them was a 17-year-old foreigner and two younger children. The tax for the transport of a migrant was 3,000 euros.
Masoud Abdo worked for a year and a half in a metal products factory in Plovdiv, owned by a Lebanese. His brother also worked there. After the incident in Burgas, when Omar hit the police patrol car with a bus and killed the uniform, Masoud went missing for several days. Some time ago, the police questioned him and his brother about a robbery.
The Canal Tartore rented a seventh floor paneled apartment on Dunav Blvd. # 8 in the town below the hills. Officially, he worked in a private company.
A woman of about 60 and two girls lived with him in the apartment. The owner of the property has lived and worked in Italy for years. That’s why he was renting the apartment.
“The boy was silent, he smiled when he met,
he greeted with a nod of the head, but did not speak to us
Apparently he did not know the Bulgarian language, “explained retiree Georgi Dobrev. He lives on the fifth floor in the same hall, two floors below the foreigner. The man added that the Syrian and his roommates did not cause any problems for anyone and they paid bills regularly.
Since the beginning of this year, however, foreigners have begun to visit the 30-year-old Syrian frequently. This did not go unnoticed by the neighbors.
“We decided they were his friends. Just two weeks ago when
12-13 The Arabs had gathered in front of the entrance,
I suspected he had ties to migrants, “added Georgi Dobrev.
The same foreigners stayed for about an hour in front of the block, after which they left without making any noise and without causing any problems.
Local residents wondered whether to report to the police, they urged each other and never decided.
“My friend told me she saw how two police cars arrived on Tuesday morning around 9:30, the uniformed ones entered the hall and took the Syrian away. After that, it turned out that he had been arrested for smuggling of migrants, “explained an elderly woman living at 10 Dunav Blvd.
The man did not resist and silently got into the police car.
“In the last 3-4 months, almost every day around noon, 2-3 shiny Mercedes arrived, from which well-dressed men got out. In most cases, the Syrian waited for them outside, talked and then left.
I haven’t seen them exchange money or fight. “
When the landlady returned to Bulgaria, she described her tenants to neighbors as being quiet and clean.
“Yes, they were. We never imagined that he was involved in human trafficking,” added the pensioner.
The 29-year-old Syrian citizen was arrested in Plovdiv on charges of having organized the channel for the trafficking of migrants in our country, in which on 25 August, after a collision with a bus carrying foreigners, two died in Burgas. policemen.
Another 11 people were arrested as his accomplices. According to the investigators, they are the organizers of the traffic.
The Burgas tragedy occurred a month ago after 31-year-old Yordan Iliev and his 43-year-old colleague Atanas Gradev tried to stop a bus full of migrants.
Before that, the flight subsequently passed two border police checkpoints.
The Turkish license plate bus carried 48 migrants. Among them were men, women, children and even pregnant women.
In the area of the “Trapezitsa” roundabout, he entered the cycle path, hit the police car with Iliev in it and Gradev, who died instantly, destroyed the bus stop and a chemical toilet.
The police then arrested three Syrians. Among them was the bus driver, Omar Adnan, who claimed to be 15 years old. He later turned out to be 18 according to the Syrian and Turkish authorities.
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