AMERICANALMANAC (Ken Jacobs) - Red Cross withdraws aid workers from Dutch asylum centre after stabbings, citing safety breakdown
The Red Cross has pulled its aid workers out of the Netherlands' main asylum seeker registration centre at Ter Apel, declaring that the safety of its employees "can no longer be guaranteed" after a wave of stabbings and harassment by migrants at the overcrowded facility. The decision marks a stark admission from one of the […] The post Red Cross withdraws aid workers from Dutch asylum centre after stabbings, citing safety breakdown appeared first on American Almanac .
The Red Cross has pulled its aid workers out of the Netherlands' main asylum seeker registration centre at Ter Apel, declaring that the safety of its employees "can no longer be guaranteed" after a wave of stabbings and harassment by migrants at the overcrowded facility. The decision marks a stark admission from one of the world's most recognized humanitarian organizations: conditions inside a European asylum centre have deteriorated so badly that even the people sent to help can no longer safely do the job. Local Red Cross director Harm Goossens called the withdrawal a "very drastic decision" driven by violence from what he described as "a small group of troublemakers." Multiple stabbings occurred at the centre in just over a week, and…Open