An emergency shelter for more than two hundred asylum seekers will be set up in the parking lot of the Zuiderzee Museum in Enkhuizen. Several pavilions will be built on the site that are said to be wind and hardy. The emergency shelter is set up for at least three months.
The crisis shelter, which temporarily houses 225 asylum seekers, will be located on Sluisweg. The group can go there from 1 December.
Mayor Eduard van Zuijlen says that his city will help this group to ‘wait the start of their asylum procedure under human circumstances’. “It is sad that crisis relief is needed,” says Van Zuijlen. “But letting people sleep in the cold is not in our Enkhuizer dictionary.”
The group of asylum seekers who are temporarily received in Enkhuizen is largely already known, the Noord-Holland Noord security region says. This mainly concerns families who are currently staying in emergency shelters in Bergen. The emergency shelter closes on December 1.
The pavilions in the parking lot will remain there until March 2023, after which the museum will need the parking lot again for its own use.