The Red Cross will set up ten tents for forty people on the site of the application center for asylum seekers in Ter Apel. The organization says it will send eight people to set up the tents.
The reception center in Ter Apel has to deal with a large influx. In the night from Sunday to Monday, just over a hundred people had to sleep on a chair in the registration center.
A spokesperson for the Central Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers (COA) expects that all 130 available seats in Ter Apel will probably be used next night for refugees who have reported to the application center. Nearly a hundred people also go to the crisis emergency shelter in Stadskanaal.
The application centre, which has room for two thousand people, has been struggling with large crowds for some time because the flow of permit holders from reception locations to homes has stagnated. A spokesperson for the COA informed NU.nl last Thursday that, although the first extra reception places are ready, it could not be ruled out that there would again be no sleeping places for asylum seekers due to the crowds.
In March, COA set up a pavilion tent itself, but this had to be demolished under pressure from the Westerwolde municipality. A spokesman for the municipality said at the time that a tent was “not a suitable means” for the situation on the site. In addition, the permit and the necessary permission were missing.
Security regions take turns providing emergency emergency care
The COA currently has about 42,000 people in reception and about two hundred new asylum seekers report to Ter Apel every day. COA has been looking for new permanent reception locations for months.
Security regions will take turns providing emergency emergency shelter for six hundred asylum seekers, each 150 each for two weeks. Friesland and Groningen are now doing this in sports halls in Heerenveen, Finsterwolde and Leek. Zeeland has the former library of Terneuzen available.
The Amsterdam-Amstelland region has also been asked to temporarily accommodate 150 refugees. A proposal for this has been submitted to COA and the central government. The capital currently accommodates 1,650 asylum seekers and status holders.
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