One thinks of suicide, but gets no help. Others walk around with wounds, but do not see a doctor. Sixty refugee teenagers languish in a hotel in Oosterhout, according to research by BN DeStem. “I need trauma therapy to process what I saw there.”
Was this hell worth the dangerous flight to the Netherlands? Couldn’t I have died on the way? These violent thoughts were, according to the newspaper sometimes in the minds of young asylum seekers in the emergency shelter in the GR8 Hotel in Oosterhout. It is the sad result of an unsafe atmosphere and neglect. Various whistleblowers contacted this newspaper about this after they received no response within their own organizations.
Drug deals
A 16-year-old resident would walk around with an ear infection for months. He raised this several times, but according to him, he was never taken seriously. It took weeks before an involved employee intervened and the boy could still go to the doctor.
Young people would not be protected if shady figures approached them in the hotel parking lot, where drug deals often take place. There is a young asylum seeker who has been staying in the hotel for a month without seeing a guardian. Young people wouldn’t leave their room for days. Remarkably often do not go to school, as an externally involved professional notes with concern.