With Nick Robinson of BBC4: Crackdown at the border

We visited the tiny Bulgarian mountain village of Shtit, a sleepy place with dirt roads and rusting farm machinery – a place that doesn’t seem to hold much geopolitical significance, but that’s right at the border, which is marked by a 4m high fence and razor wire.

“It’s very sharp and it’s almost impossible to climb with bare hands,” says Hamid, the Iranian refugee who crossed it in 2019. “Usually they’re using ladders, but there’s some places [along the fence] that they’ve already cut.”

Our conversation is interrupted by a passing patrol car. Two uniformed officers warn us not to take photographs of the border; presumably, if shared on social media they can help migrants make the crossing.

Full interview

https://bbc.com/news/articles/c789l8wzeggo