The Red Cross is going to place ten tents for forty people on the site of the application center for asylum seekers in Ter Apel. A spokeswoman for the Red Cross says that the tents will be placed within the grounds of the application center. The Red Cross is sending eight people to Ter Apel to set up the tents.
The reception center in Ter Apel has to deal with a large influx. In the night from Sunday to Monday, just over a hundred people had to sleep on a chair in the registration center.
In recent months it has regularly happened that the influx of asylum seekers is so great that there are not enough beds available. This has previously led to asylum seekers sleeping in the open air, and the COA also set up tents next to the application centre.
A spokeswoman for the Central Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers (COA) expects that all 130 available seats in Ter Apel will probably be used next night for refugees who have reported to the application center. Nearly a hundred people also go to the crisis emergency shelter in Stadskanaal.
The COA currently has about 42,000 people in reception and about two hundred new asylum seekers report to Ter Apel every day. COA has been looking for new permanent reception locations for months.