The fifteen unaccompanied foreign minors who registered on Friday at the Pacheco centre in Brussels, as well as the approximately 80 people who had applied for asylum within the family framework, have been allocated a place in a Fedasil reception centre, the Federal Agency told Belga.
In recent days, the reception network was saturated, leaving several families without accommodation. In principle, families, unaccompanied minors and women have priority over men.
But men still suffer greatly from the consequences of the reception crisis and often find the door closed. On Thursday, 125 people who had applied for asylum within the family could not be accommodated due to a lack of places.
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“Some of these asylum seekers were not entitled to reception or had found accommodation on their own”, stated a Fedasil spokesperson, conceding however that “each person without a roof is one too many”.
Vluchtelingenwerk Vlaanderen (a Flemish NGO helping asylum seekers) was finally able to find emergency shelter on Thursday in hotels or through NGOs for around forty asylum seekers.
