The Red Cross will set up another forty tents for people on the grounds of the application center for asylum seekers in Ter Apel. The aid organization already placed ten tents for the crisis shelter last night.
Stuivenberg expects that even more people will have to use the tents in the coming night. “Every day is different in terms of influx,” he says, “but according to a careful calculation we will be 130 places short the coming night. The eight tents that are there now can sleep four times eight people, so we will come later. still a hundred spots short.”
The COA has once again called in the help of the Red Cross. “Knowing the Red Cross, they will help, so I assume that these people here will not have to sleep in the cold in the open air tonight.”
Susan van Geijn of the Red Cross: “There are already ten tents, and we will add forty tents from 7 p.m. Tuesday evening. Although we hope that an extra crisis shelter will be added before tonight.”
Stuivenberg calls the situation terrible. “Of course we don’t want this. As far as COA is concerned, this is far below the limit.”