The canton of Zurich is under pressure due to the high number of refugees. Now he is opening another temporary accommodation in the middle of the city of Zurich.
Because there are no showers in the police barracks, the security department had a tent set up with shower containers.
For years, politicians in the canton of Zurich were at loggerheads over the future of the police barracks. The canton police wanted to stick to “their” barracks despite the move to the newly opened police and justice center; The city and canton argued about the use of the barracks area as a whole. Now the last police officers have definitely moved out – and the police barracks are being used in a way that has never been discussed: as refugee accommodation.
