DM, “ISIS offers $50,000 reward for head of Bulgaria’s ‘migrant hunter’: Vigilante who terrorises refugees along the Turkish border for ‘sport’ finds himself being targeted by jihadis,” 8 July 2016:

  Dinko Valev’s units use military vehicles and dogs to hunt asylum seekers
  He hands illegal migrants over to the police ‘because they are all jihadists’
  Wants Bulgarian state to fund operation and pay for every captured refugee
  Human rights group accuse Valev of terrorising migrants with death threats

ISIS has put a $50,000 bounty on the head of a self-styled ‘migrant hunter’ who organises gangs of vigilantes to patrol and hunt down illegal asylum seekers in Bulgaria.

Dinko Valev, 29, uses two armoured vehicles to patrol territory near the city of Yambol, close to the border with Turkey.

But now it has been revealed that the Bulgarian State Agency for National Security have warned him he is being targeted by the terrorists.

The agent said he was on a list of names for which ISIS was offering a bounty with payment being made once a video or picture confirming the deed had been provided.

The information about the ISIS offer was found on several Islamist websites which are reportedly funded by terrorist organisations.

Valev was described as the ‘leader of a paramilitary unit operating on the Bulgarian-Turkish border along with a dozen other men’.

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‘His victims included men, women and children fleeing Syria. In one incident, he forced them to lie face down for half an hour after terrorising them with death threats.

‘In another refugee roundup, he boasts about tracking a man for a while before finally capturing him.

‘He repeatedly makes offensive remarks about refugees and it’s clear that he plans to expand his volunteer corps to focus on capturing more asylum seekers.

‘Even more worrying is that he wants the state to fund his operation and to pay for every captured refugee.

‘So he is not only spreading fear of refugees within Bulgarian society, and inspiring people to treat them with disgust and hostility, and to reject them, but he’s also asking for his actions to be supported.’