Prague will close the tent camp for refugees from Ukraine in Malešice on Tuesday — ČT24 — Czech Television
According to Vít Hofman, a spokesman for the Prague municipality, the number of clients in both places has been dropping significantly in recent weeks. People will be in Malešice for the last time on Tuesday, July 26, after which they will move to Troja. Mayor Zdeněk Hřib (Pirates) added that the city saw the operation of the camps from the beginning as a last resort and temporary solution.
The first tent camp with a capacity of 150 beds the Municipality of Troy opened on Saturday, May 14. In the first weekend, 142 people found asylum there. At the beginning of May and after that, a second location with the same capacity began operating in Malešice.
They solved the same problem in the spring in Brno, where there were also two refugee camps. The city administration folded it in the center. “We decided to stop the operation because there was already minimal traffic here. We plan to re-equip the place with another type of tents, so that we can possibly reopen this area,” said Filip Poňuchálek, the spokesperson of the municipality. There are currently no refugees in the camp.
The Prague KACPU works
On July 11, after less than a month, Prague reopened the Regional Assistance Center for Help in Ukraine (KACPU) in Vysočany, which it previously closed due to exhaustion of accommodation capacities. The center now provides Ukrainians with all services, except for providing emergency overnight accommodation in tent camps and arranging state beds for the Refugee Facilities Administration.
From the beginning conflict in Ukraine According to data from the Ministry of the Interior in the Czech Republic, more than 398,000 refugees received temporary visas, of which 91,000 were in the capital.