A group of about a hundred asylum seekers will stay two nights longer in the village of Tweede Exloërmond in Drenthe. They had been transferred from the overcrowded application center in Ter Apel and were to leave the emergency shelter on Saturday, but there is no new place for them yet.
According to the municipality of Borger-Odoorn, which includes Tweede Exloërmond, asylum seekers can now stay in the Hunsowhal until Monday afternoon. Then they should be gone. The reception has been extended “at the urgent request of the Central Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers (COA)”.
Mayor Jan Seton says on the site of the municipality of Borger-Odoorn: “By extending the emergency shelter in the Hunsowhal by a maximum of two days, we offer COA the space to arrange follow-up shelter for these refugees. In addition, this gives the refugees themselves. also a moment of rest in the uncertain situation that they do not yet have a place to stay for a longer period of time.”
The application center in Ter Apel, from which the group of asylum seekers came, has often had to sound the alarm lately because they cannot handle the large influx of refugees. For example, last week people had to sleep outside for some time, because there was no more room. Those people were eventually allowed to spend the night in waiting areas of the center.
In addition, refugees for whom there is no longer a place in Ter Apel have recently been unable to go to another reception location, because there is no transport for them. Thursday is prevent that refugees had to sleep on chairs in the application center. They could go to Budel in Brabant and Vledder in Drenthe.
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