Dutch judges refuse to send asylum seekers from the Netherlands to Belgium because they are in danger of ending up here on the street
© Kristof Vadino
Since February, Dutch judges have refused several times to send asylum seekers from the Netherlands to Belgium to have their asylum application. It is at least four judicial judgments. That is what the weekly writes Knack Wednesday.
Source: Belga
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According to Knack, it is about asylum seekers who, before they went to the Netherlands, had submitted an asylum application in our country. The European Dublin Regulation prescribes that the country where the first asylum application is submitted is generally responsible for the asylum procedure. In this case Belgium.
But recently, Dutch courts ignore that rule. « There are starting points for serious fear that the reception facilities in Belgium contain system errors, » said a recent statement about a Georgian man. Because the reception capacity of 36,000 places at Fedasil is saturated, the Georgian threatened to end up on the street.
That could lead to the violation of, among other things, Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), which states that « no one should be subject to tortures or inhuman or humiliating treatments or punishment ».
Single men
The ruling comes according to Knack Not coincidentally with single men. Under the Vivaldi government, then State Secretary for Asylum and Migration Nicole de Moor (CD&V) decided that families were given priority in the asylum reception, which has been extremely extremely. Single adult men ended up on a waiting list. Today, that list still has around 3,000 people.
The Dutch judges see no improvement among current Minister of Asylum and Migration Anneleen van Bossuyt (N-VA). On the basis of international reports, but also a dashboard from NGOs Vluchtelingenwerk Vlaanderen and Doctors without Borders, among others, the court in Groningen concluded on 11 April « that the waiting lists for regular reception in Belgium only rise further ».
