Mayor Eric van Oosterhout and the Village Board of Nieuw-Weerdinge respond disappointed to the announced test with stricter supervision of nuisance asylum seekers. According to them, the plan does not reach far enough to prevent the nuisance.
Minister Marjolein Faber today visited two AZCs in the municipalities of Emmen and Westerwolde. In the morning she visited the Hesselanden family location at the Rietlanden Emmer district. She then talked to Mayors Eric van Oosterhout (Emmen) and Jaap Velema (Westerwolde) in the Village House of Nieuw-Weerdinge. The police and the village council of Nieuw-Weerdinge were also present.
In the afternoon, Faber visited the registration location in Ter Apel, to finally talk to the college and the group chairmen of the Westerwolde city council.
What was high on the agenda was the nuisance caused by Veighelanders. These are asylum seekers who do not have a chance of a permanent residence permit. They regularly cause major inconvenience in both Nieuw-Weerdinge and Ter Apel. Such as burglaries, upsaws, grinding of cars. Residents, village councils and the two civilian fathers want to an end. Reason also to invite Faber to visit both villages.
Ever since last fall, an invitation went on Faber’s side. The minister only appears to be difficult to reach and it takes months before a date is finally punctured.
Faber explained her plan this morning. In her plan, the Safetymans are initially imposed a reporting obligation. If they do not cooperate, they have to move to a location where they will be placed under stricter supervision. Then if they continue to go over the skew, they will be placed in detention in Hoogeveen.
In the meantime, they can simply leave the AZC site and enter the area. From a legal point of view, they cannot be held there. But we look at what is possible.
Mayor Eric van Oosterhout reacts disappointed to the plan, which in his eyes falls short. “The idea was to keep the procedure in Ter Apel well up to the light, through which disadvantaged asylum seekers would go through.”
Van Oosterhout and his colleague Jaap Velema have previously hammered the life of the so -called Process Decision Location (PBL). In this special department within the AZC Ter Apel, nuisance securities can be accelerated. The PBL turned for a short time, but turned out to be legally not well put together. For the time being it is out of use, but the municipalities hope to make it a comeback soon.
Van Oosterhout: “But she kept that boat a bit. In addition, it is important that the asylum seekers are better spread over the Netherlands. I also did not hear the minister say yes to that.”
And that is disappointing Van Oosterhout. “We waited half a year for the arrival of the minister. I expected that she would come up with a better result. So yes, I am disappointed.” Van Oosterhout says he has little confidence in Faber’s plan. “I fear that the nuisance will last for a long time.”
Village chairman Wim Katoen van Nieuw-Weerdinge is also not impressed by the conversation. “I am in it with mixed feelings. We have made Faber some suggestions. Like keeping the Safeelanders in the evening after ten in the evening. Or an asylum bus between Emmen and Ter Apel that they use for transport. But it was all difficult, Difficult, she would look at it again. “
With regard to its current plan, cotton wonders if it is all legally sustainable. “I see the lawsuits coming again,” he refers to the early end of the PBL. “It’s just time for The Hague to put the heads together and come up with a real solution.”