In addition, the reopening of the HUB is also a response to what is happening in Ter Apel, says Sjoukje Volten, spokesperson for the municipality of Utrecht. The HUB is not set up differently than before. If that had been possible, it would have happened then, but “otherwise people would have had to sleep in the grass under the open sky,” she indicates. “It is clear that it is far from ideal, but it is better than the alternative.”
Utrecht arranges its own reception of 100 asylum seekers because ‘direction is lacking’
