Refugee shooting

Bulgaria rejected accusations that its border guards shot a Syrian refugee in October after a video released yesterday showed a man being fired at on European country’s border with Turkey. The footage of an asylumseeker being hit with live ammunition on October 3 was part of a joint investigation by several European media outlets led by Lighthouse Reports. In the video recorded on the Turkish side of the border, a young man falls to the ground after a bullet goes through his hand and into his chest. The man, in separate footage captured days later, identified himself as 19-year-old Abdullah El Rustum of Syria. He said he was shot by Bulgarian border officers. The Bulgarian government denied the allegations, arguing servicemembers guarding the border strictly followed international and domestic laws.