At the registration center for asylum seekers in Ter Apel, about a hundred people will sleep outside during the night from Wednesday to Thursday. According to a spokeswoman for the Central Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers (COA), the asylum seekers do not want to use emergency reception locations elsewhere.
Over the past few nights, people have also been sleeping outside the application center. Then it was about twenty or thirty people at the most.
On Wednesday, people were taken from Ter Apel to a crisis emergency shelter in Waalre. The crisis emergency shelter in Stadskanaal is also used to accommodate people.
The application center in Ter Apel has been overcrowded for a long time.