Wijk bij Duurstede has been taking in about a hundred refugees in a sports hall since Saturday evening. Due to the nuisance, Wijk bij Duurstede decided on Tuesday to deploy four extra officers and a few extra enforcers. Ten security guards are constantly present around the sports hall. The asylum seekers present were screened by the security region, security and the police. It is not known what this resulted in. People from safe countries do not go to Wijk bij Duurstede, according to the municipality.
The municipality of Borger-Odoorn in Drenthe takes over about 125 refugees from Ter Apel. Two sports halls are being set up for this. The temporary shelter should help to reduce the pressure on the overcrowded application center.
About 75 to 85 refugees can go to the Hunsowhal in Tweede Exloërmond, while 40 to 50 people get a place in the sports hall in the village of Exloo. The refugees will arrive on Thursday and leave next Friday. The application center in Ter Apel is located in the Groningen municipality of Westerwolde, close to the border with Borger-Odoorn and Drenthe. “We would like to make our contribution and offer this temporary emergency shelter at two locations to reduce the pressure on our neighboring municipality of Westerwolde,” says Mayor Jan Seton van Borger-Odoorn on the municipal site.
emergency shelter
The municipalities of Dordrecht and Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht are extending the emergency reception of asylum seekers. They are allowed to stay where they are now until the end of this year. In Dordrecht, about 160 people have been in a former Salvation Army night shelter since July. Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht accommodates about thirty people in a former gym. Because these people are allowed to stay in emergency shelters, there is no need to find a new place for them, so that the pressure on national shelters does not become even greater.
Amersfoort announced earlier on Tuesday that it would receive forty minor asylum seekers. They may initially stay in a Van der Valk hotel for three months. After that, the reception may be extended.