The announced emergency shelter for the overcrowded application center in Ter Apel will be in the municipality of Emmen. Sources confirm that RTL News.
Defense announced today that it will help Ter Apel. The Ministry of Defense makes a location available to accommodate asylum seekers who would otherwise have to sleep outside the gates of the application center in Ter Apel because there is no room. Defense has no location in Emmen.
There will also be reception places in Doetinchem on the site of the Delft University of Technology and asylum seekers will be received on a boat in Arnhem.
Several buses are ready at the crowded application center in Ter Apel on Friday evening to take asylum seekers to other locations in the country. This happened after earlier in the day the Health and Youth Care Inspectorate raised the alarm with health minister Ernst Kuipers and the chairman of the Groningen Security Region Koen Schuiling about the health situation on the grounds of the application centre.
People are going to Utrecht, Stadskanaal, Zuidbroek, Almere and Groningen, a spokeswoman for the Central Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers COA reported. About 390 people can leave the application center, which has been very busy for some time and hundreds of people sleep outside.
At least fifty people can go to Almere, a hundred go to the Jaarbeurs in Utrecht. According to the spokeswoman, despite the fact that buses are ready, people still doubt whether they want to come and some also walk away from the buses, they do not want to come. She cannot say how many are left.
The 25 mayors of the Security Council, chairmen of the security regions, insist that the cabinet provides an emergency reception location for the application center in Ter Apel next week. This was stated by council chairman Hubert Bruls, mayor of Nijmegen, on Friday evening.