It was only temporary and is now still in operation: the container village for refugees on the former Tempelhof airfield Photo: Ralf Gunther
From Hildburg Bruns
More and more refugees from all over the world are finding their way to Germany and Berlin. Accommodation is getting tight in the capital.
Even the record number of 27,700 places in the capital is not enough to accommodate refugees.
Social Senator Katja Kipping (44, left) therefore wants to use two former airport terminals in Tegel during the winter.
Social Senator Katja Kipping (Die Linke) Photo: carpil
The keys for terminals A/B were actually supposed to be returned to Tegel-Projekt GmbH at the end of October. The developers plan u. Test drilling for the conversion of the university rooms of the Berlin University of Applied Sciences (formerly Beuth University).
Terminal C (formerly Air Berlin) will in future be used as an arrival and distribution center for Ukrainians and will be supplemented by winterized containers. Now, however, asylum seekers from other countries are also to be accommodated in Tegel on a daily or maximum weekly basis.
There are currently only 200 spaces left. In the first nine months, 12,237 new asylum seekers were registered in Berlin – in the whole previous year only 7812. The main countries of origin in September: Syria 357, Moldova 280, Georgia 257, Turkey 230, Afghanistan 205.
The Berlin interior authorities stopped deportations to Iran yesterday. Security forces are currently brutally cracking down on government critics in the country. In Berlin, 668 Iranian citizens are required to leave the country. But almost all of them have a Duldung. The deportation stop does not apply to dangerous and serious offenders.
Kipping does not want to resort to gymnasiums like at the time of the great influx of refugees in 2015/2016. “That’s a no go.”