Next night, approximately three hundred asylum seekers will have to sleep outside at the application center in Ter Apel. A spokesperson for the Central Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers (COA) reports this on Saturday evening NRC. That’s fifty people more than the night before. This group did not manage to find another place to sleep in time.
About eighty people were admitted to the application center on Saturday. Seventy people were taken to Vlissingen by bus at the end of the afternoon, 85 especially vulnerable people are being cared for in Stadskanaal.
No precipitation is expected for tonight. The security situation and hygienic conditions on the fields where asylum seekers sleep outside have been very bad for days.
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‘Five times as many children without parents as allowed’
Earlier in the day, sources reported NRC that at the moment about 350 children without parents are cared for in Ter Apel, while there is officially only room for 55 unaccompanied minors. About fifty children sleep on chairs in the waiting room of the IND. Apart from security, there is no supervision for the young people.
In the night from Friday to Saturday, approximately 250 asylum seekers slept outside on a lawn near the application centre. On Friday evening, about four hundred people were evacuated to other places because of the very poor hygiene on the fields in Ter Apel. Two hundred of them returned Saturday morning, along with new arrivals joining the queue, a total of about 450 people were waiting Saturday evening.
On Saturday, Doctors Without Borders provided medical treatment to 44 people. A person with heart problems was taken to hospital by ambulance, according to ANP news agency.