Prague will move refugees from tent cities to one. To Troy – Forum24
A tent city in Troy. | PHOTO: Prague Fire and Rescue Service, with permission
The Prague municipality will start moving tent cities for Roma refugees from Ukraine into one today. Now, instead of two, there will be one in Troy. People and equipment from Malešice will move there, where the town will be temporarily preserved. He told Mayor Zdenek Hřib (Pirates). The reason for the relocation is the low number of refugees who use the tents. The first town with a capacity of 150 beds was opened by Prague in May in Troja, followed by an equally large one in Malešice. Over 2,400 people have passed through the tent cities so far, and now there are not even a hundred of them.
“During Tuesday, we will move the two existing towns into one in Troja. The capacity of the combined area will be 250 beds, and the operation will be provided by approximately 30 people. We will close the tent city in Malešice and remain preserved for about a month. If necessary, operation can be resumed,” said Hřib.
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Until now, one of the tent cities served as a waiting room for the Regional Assistance Center for Helping Ukraine (KACPU) in Vysočany, and the other provided emergency shelter for incoming refugees who had nowhere to go. “We managed to get the situation under control, so we will remain in operation only from them. At the same time, the number of clients is decreasing,” added the mayor. On Monday, there were 71 people in Malešice and nine in Troja.
The first tent city with a capacity of 150 beds was opened by the municipality of Troja on Saturday, May 14. In the first weekend, 142 people found asylum there. Then, at the turn of May and June, a tent town with the same capacity began to operate in Malešice.
On July 11, after less than a month, Prague reopened the assistance center 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 cities and arranging state beds for the Refugee Facilities Administration. According to data from the Ministry of the Interior in the Czech Republic, 400,000 refugees have received temporary visas since the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine, 91,000 of them in Prague.