The departure center is to be built at BER Photo: picture alliance/dpa
From BZ/dpa
The protest against the planned construction of an entry and exit center for refugees at BER Airport continues with a squat.
According to their own statements, a group of around 30 activists occupied a property in Schönefeld on Saturday. A spokeswoman said it was people from civil society who had come together to protest. They fear that a deportation prison could be built there. According to the police, the situation was calm early on Saturday afternoon. The officials are in contact with the activists.
The planned center of the federal government and the state of Brandenburg should enable an orderly handling of the entry and exit procedures with increasing numbers of entries. According to the Interior Ministry, the country is planning exit custody. Migrants who are in the airport asylum procedure and are to be deported are to be accommodated in a transit building. According to the Federal Ministry of the Interior, the federal government wants to rent so-called custody rooms.
A deportation prison is not planned there – the Brandenburg Greens had pushed this through in the coalition agreement. CDU Interior Minister Michael Stübgen considers the project necessary. The coalition partner Greens considers the number of places in exit custody to be too high and sees questions in the tendering of the project.
At the beginning of June, human rights activists opened a temporary protest camp against the construction in Schönefeld. According to their own statements, they turned against the current deportation practice, which leads to pressure and suffering. The left-wing faction in the state parliament had filed a complaint with the Brandenburg Constitutional Court because they accused the Ministry of the Interior of sparse information policy.