On Monday morning, the Red Cross started tearing down all the tents it had set up on the grounds of the application center in Ter Apel. The two hundred places that the tents offered are no longer necessary now that extra reception places for asylum seekers have been created elsewhere in the country, according to the aid organization.
Last weekend, in the night from Saturday to Sunday, for the first time in weeks, no people had to sleep in the sports hall, a tent or on a chair in the waiting room of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (IND). In the Limburg town of Geleen, among other places, a place has been found to take over refugees from Ter Apel.
The cabinet also announced on Friday that it would start a crisis approach for the asylum reception that has come to a standstill. The Red Cross says it is pleased that the cabinet is ‘taking the crisis so seriously’. “We hope that a more humane solution is now approaching.” The organization says it will remain in contact with the Central Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers, the Ministry and the security regions to continue to monitor developments ‘closely’ and possibly offer support.
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