About resignation from a project that aroused controversy on both sides border Polish-German, at the end of last week, the Minister of the Interior of the Brandenburg Land Katrin Lange from SPD announced. “I inherited this project from my predecessor, but from the moment I took the office I did not hide my skepticism,” said Lange cited by the RBB regional station. After the September election in Brandenburg, she took over the Ministry of the Interior in the region from Chadek Michael Stuebgen.
Last Thursday, February 13, the minister visited the Odrzańska Island in Kuestrin-Kkietz, lying on the border with Poland in the vicinity of Kostrzyn. It was there that in the area of the ruin of former Soviet barracks it was planned to place residential containers that could accommodate about 250 people, whom conclusions Asylum in Germany was rejected. In March last year, the authorities of the Maerkisch-Oderland poviat presented the project to the residents of the commune where the island lies. Representatives of the commune were against these plans.
Inadequate location
She informed new The Brandenburg Minister of the Interior A visit to the Odrzańska Island confirmed her belief that this is not the right location of the center for migrants – including due to infrastructure requirements. According to poviat authorities, the buildings of former barracks contain asbestos, and the Earth is contaminated. Admission to this area is prohibited. In turn, other parts of the Odrzańska Island are a closed nature reserve.
“Such an object does not fit here. I am not convinced by my current plans or the proposed location,” said Lange, cited by RBB. However, she promised to find a different location of the planned center.
The creation of the Dublin Center
Last Thursday, the Ministry of the Interior also announced that in the city of Eisenhuettenstadt near the border with Poland, the so -called The Dublin Center, i.e. a center intended for people applying for asylum, who entered the country by other EU countries. Such migrants are to be transferred as soon as possible to consider their asylum applications of EU countries. Eisenhuettenstadt has a preliminary reception center for asylum applicants. The second such center would be built in Hamburg – he says journal “Bild”.
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