The judge had previously determined that from today a maximum of 2,000 asylum seekers may stay in Ter Apel.
Pay penalty
If the registration center does not comply and there are more, the COA must pay a penalty of 15,000 euros per day to the municipality of Westerwolde, of which Ter Apel is a part. A COA spokesperson does not know how this will be handled, but ‘it will be paid properly’.
“The inflow was higher last evening and night,” the spokesperson told RTL News. “We were only able to take stock in the morning, we are not constantly standing at the door with a counter to check whether we have exceeded 2000. We will try once more tonight. Whether a new location has now been found for these 32 people , must be checked with the national office.”
To bring the number below 2,000, the COA transferred several hundred asylum seekers to a temporary location on the Walibi Holland site in Biddinghuizen earlier this week.
