Den Helder is asylum seekers in old barracks – AD.nl

Den Helder is asylum seekers in old barracks – AD.nl

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22-9-14 – 14:50 Source: Reuters Refugees in a shelter. Due to the large influx of asylum seekers, there’s help arranged in empty prisons, as in Veenhuizen. © anp.

The municipality of Den Helder is at the request of the Central Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers (COA) temporarily accommodate hundreds of asylum seekers in the empty Lieutenant Colonel Maaskamp barracks in the naval town. This has the city announced today.

Last spring it was announced that would be housed in the former juvenile Doggershoek in Den Helder. Up to 600 asylum seekers after the summer However, the renovation of this show so much more expensive than planned, a European procurement is a necessity. As a result, the delivery months later than planned.