An original translation by Hermes:

From Der Westen

Processing point for asylum seekers in Dortmund Hachenev. Numerous immigrants waiting for help  in front of the registration office and the surrounding streets. Residents are worried.

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Dortmund.  The situation at the processing point for immigrants in Dortmund-Hachenev has sharpened. The shelter is full, as is the second one belonging to this complex in Derne. It is an unbearable situation for asylum seekers and residents as well. The immigrants will be located temporarily in sport halls.

350 came just in one night. This is exactly the number of immigrants the center in Hachenev can accept at the initial reception. In spite of having one more shelter in Derne, which has long ago reached its full capacity, the conditions are turning dramatic at the processing point for immigrants in Hachenev. It is an unbearable situation for asylum seekers and residents as well. Yesterday a ban on receiving more immigrants was declared. In the worst times, the shelter was hopelessly full with some 880 people. Two cases of chickenpox made the crisis management harder. There is risk of infection. The crowd of immigrants was accommodated yesterday in sport halls

“The number (of immigrants) doubles daily”

Town councilor Wilhelm Steitz is resigned. “I have no explanations and no assessments at all”. The wave of refugees, which has been increasing since august, had formally overrun the city in the last days- “It doubles almost daily”. And it is not only Dortmund which is affected. All centers of reception are in the same situation: “In Karlsruhe there are already tent cities”. Asylum procedures in accordance with the regulations are no more possible. Only crisis management. 300 beds are set up early evening in the Brüggmann sport hall. The fire brigades, the St. John’s ambulance brigade and the German Red Cross call the quick setting up of the emergency shelter an “averting of danger”

„Nobody will have to spend the night in the street”, fire brigade member Dirk Aschenbrenner says. Those refugees who were left stranded in the morning at the doors of the reception center get here minimal standards, rations of food and emergency care. Meanwhile, the city public health dept. puts great effort in taking blood tests from all refugees and arranging vaccinations. Yesterday in Derne, today in Hachenev. The chicken pox, which is a children’s illness, can be very dangerous for grown-ups with no antibodies against it. Pregnant women and old men are specially in danger

Emergency measures for 24 hours

The healthy ones are given the vaccine – and if possible, transferred right today to other compounds in the outskirts of Dortmund. It has been promised that capacities will be made available, and together with this, a third reception center will be set up in North Rhine-Westphalia. The emergency measure of the camp beds has been approved only for 24 hours. “After this, proper settlements must be created”, and the responsibility for this lies with the government.