The asylum seekers who arrived at the shelter in Uden on Wednesday will not be sent away. The municipality will not enforce it, even though the shelter is illegal. The judge ruled on Wednesday morning that no asylum seekers may be accommodated in the hotel for the next two days.
After much wrangling, the municipality announced on Tuesday that it has finalized the permit for the reception of three hundred asylum seekers for the next three years. But a group of local residents went to court again on Wednesday morning, alleging that documents were missing. They asked for a license suspension. The judge agreed and will make a decision on Friday. Until then, the shelter is not actually allowed to open.
In the meantime, several buses with around fifty asylum seekers arrived at the shelter on Wednesday. The COA was very concerned that the asylum seekers would be sent away. “The shelters where these people come from have now been filled up,” a spokeswoman said earlier today.
“The need is great and the conditions in Ter Apel are inhumane.”
Although the municipality is in violation, that is not going to happen. The municipality can decide for itself whether enforcement will take place and says it has reasons not to do so now. “There is a concrete prospect of legalization, because the permit is there. Moreover, the need is great and the conditions in Ter Apel are inhumane,” the municipality wrote in a statement.
The municipality has informed the COA that no more people may be admitted to the hotel for the time being, pending what the judge decides on Friday.
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