Residents Escape Garage move their stuff. Photo ANP / Remko de Waal
A large group of refugees left this morning from the Flight Garage in Amsterdam Southeast. That reports news agency ANP. The police are also present.
Tonight was the last night of the asylum seekers in the garage, they squatted in October 2013. In late March, the judge ruled that the Flight garage any time may be cleared. Mayor Eberhard van der Laan said last week that he was indeed late vacate the property.
Stuff pack
The residents received a letter from the mayor in which she was asked to leave the Flight garage. Today, volunteers help them with the muster of their stuff. Through the Public Health Service, the asylum seekers can register for the Bed- Bath and Bread Facilities of the city of Amsterdam
That finding residents united in the action group “We Are Here”, “a stopgap measure”:.
“It’s only night shelter, so during the day we have to wander the streets.”
Protesting against asylum
Some of the asylum seekers living in the garage take action against the Dutch asylum policy. Since September 2012, they roam the capital, they reside mainly in squats.
100 to 120 refugees
In Flight Garage stayed between one and 120 people. Their application for leave to remain was rejected in the Netherlands, but they can in their own words not return to their home countries, including Somalia, Sudan, Congo and Yemen.
The group is not looking for a new cracking location. A spokesman for the refugees said:
“They are now on the street and that they want to show.”
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