A new emergency at the registration center in Ter Apel between Christmas and New Year appears to have been averted in the nick of time. In recent days, several municipalities have made temporary emergency shelter available.
The municipality of Maashorst then decided not to send away the asylum seekers who had already arrived and to accommodate them in the hotel. This afternoon the judge ruled that they can stay there. However, one hundred fewer people may be accommodated in the Van der Valk hotel than originally intended.
Things run more smoothly at the other emergency locations. In Groningen this concerns fifty well-known places in Winschoten and a hundred in the Sorghvliethal in Veendam. Amsterdam also makes a significant contribution with three hundred places. This certainly applies to Breda, which provides 350 shelter places.
It should be enough to bring Ter Apel into slightly calmer waters around the holidays. “All things considered, it appears that we have sufficient outflow to relieve Ter Apel in the coming Christmas week,” a COA spokesperson said. To add: ‘These, of course, remain emergency solutions.’