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- Actually I would say that most reactions at this time are coming from local communities, which pressured by all the other problems caused by the crisis, mainly economic ones and as a result also social ones, see that they will have to accept on their territory an institution which will accommodate a large number of illegal immigrants. This is the major problem, especially if you look at it from a social point of view. Because I think that if these centres are established in the way they should be, under the conditions and standards under which they must be constructed, NGOs themselves, or international organizations for human rights as a whole will be satisfied and will not criticize.

- Bulgaria expects to join the Schengen Area. How can we learn from the Greek experience with illegal immigration? How can Bulgaria prepare for this problem?

- As I said before, the best organization is the cooperation between the countries. Of course operating actions should also be taken in border protection and for the security of the country in general. But this is only one side of the solution and it could also be called a symptomatic solution. No matter how hard you try to prevent or hinder the thousands of people coming into your country, this can not happen because the border is a very large area and people will at some point find a way to cross it. The best solution is cooperation and agreements between the countries. That is, the receiving countries of immigrants should cooperate with the countries through which they pass or the countries from which immigrants come, who for the most part, are just trying to find a better life. But they are trying to find a better life and better future in societies that are currently pressed either by the world or by the European or national economic crisis.

- Recently, the Greek police found an entire weaponry in the maritime suburb of Loutsa. Do you have any evidence that someone is preparing a terrorist act in Greece?

- We are now at the initial stage of the police investigation. There is no evidence to lead us to a terrorist organization, or illegal possession of large amounts of weapons to lead us directly to terrorist activities. This issue is monitored by the Greek authorities, we work systematically and methodically to discover where this large amount of weapons comes from and where it should go.

- We recently learned also about the emergence of a new terrorist organization "12 of February", which claimed responsibility for the unexploded homemade bombs in the Athens subway. How dangerous is this organization?

- Firstly I would like to tell you that at this stage we can not talk about a terrorist organization because we do not have clear, explicit evidence to convince us that we are talking about an organization. What actually exists and is an objective fact, is a text which some people called a message, others called a manifesto, of people who identify certain facts about society, economy and details about the specific action. At this point we have no evidence of any existing terrorist organization, or at least of an organization that could or would like to take advantage of the vacuum created after neutralizing almost all of the terrorist organizations that have existed in Greece. I’d like to say again, that what we actually have is a text that we are carefully and methodically examining to eventually discover who might lie behind this incident, behind the attempt to detonate a homemade bomb in the subway.