Prague ends the reception of Ukrainian refugees and closes the center in Vysočany for them
Regional Assistance Center for Assistance to Ukraine in Prague (PHOTO: Lukáš Cirok)
The Prague City Hall will close the center for Ukrainian refugees in Vysočany on June 15. The reason is the capital and the lack of a system of relocation to other less busy regions. The center will be closed indefinitely until the government introduces a system of redistribution of refugees or the burden is balanced between regions. After today’s meeting of the municipal crisis staff, he announced this to the mayor Zdeněk Hřib (Pirates). ČTK finds out the statement of the Minister of the Interior Vít Rakušan (STAN).
“Capacities in Prague have long been exceeded. The only management tool we have left is to close KACPU (Regional Assistance Center for Ukraine) and redirect refugees to other regions where that capacity still exists,” said Hibib.
Prague is affected by a large influx of refugees, which, according to the mayor, are up to four times more than in some other regions. KACPU, which serves Prague and Central Bohemia, has so far handled over 90,000 people. Due to the large number of mostly Roman refugees from Ukraine residing at Prague’s main railway station, refugee tent camps had to be set up in Troja and Malešice.
The mushroom blamed the government for not creating a system for redistributing refugees. According to him, cities only communicate the reasons why the system cannot be created, instead of proposing concrete steps. The center will be closed until the municipality finds, according to the mayor, that the burden is balancing between the region and that the government has set sufficient incentive steps to force the refugees to relocate. “As soon as it appears on the table, the crisis staff will meet and discuss it,” he said.
In addition, non-profit organizations that criticize both the government and the Prague City Council have ended up at the Central Station with the help of. “We are sorry that politicians from the City of Prague do not negotiate with us and do not come up with meaningful proposals for resolving the situation at the Central Station. We reject the lawsuit represented by the Police and the Ministry of the Interior,” time. declaration.
Prague suffers from the fact that, unlike some cities, it cannot solve the shortage of accommodation by moving refugees to its immediate surroundings, as it is also absent in the Central Bohemian Region. According to Hřiby, the government’s analysis and the analysis of People in Need confirmed this. The city will inform refugees about the closure of the center and about traveling to regions other than Prague.
The capital will now analyze current accommodation to see if operators will be willing to continue accommodating refugees even after the government expires a three-month period during which they are obliged to take care of refugees. The city is now paying 140 crowns from its budget for accommodation in addition to the state contribution, which it would stop doing after the deadline. “We don’t want to take hasty steps and we want to think about it properly, so we’ll do an analysis,” Hrib said.