25 security zones have agreed to jointly create thousands of additional shelters for short-term asylum seekers. In principle, the agreement is that 150 extra emergency shelters will be provided per zone to which, for example, empty offices, events or gymnasiums can be adapted.
It is a solution designed for a period of two to three weeks. After that, a structural solution has to be found. The situation in Ter Apel has deteriorated in recent months, with refugees sleeping outside in sleeping bags and bus rides at night to greet people.
Municipalities cannot be obliged to organize this shelter, but State Secretary Van der Burg is confident that the temporary shelter will be realised. “Everyone agrees, and I fully trust these 25 mayors. That should ensure that we don’t have to call at 9:30 a.m. every day to ask whose room he still has.”
The chairman of the Security Council, mayor Bruls van Nijmegen, hopes that the reception of asylum seekers will soon become calmer. The promise of safe zones could also mean that fewer Ukrainians are accepted in favor of regular asylum seekers in some places, he said.
Source: NOS
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