In Prague – Malešice, a tent city for Ukrainian refugees has ceased to function
Update: 27/07/2022 06:20
Issued by: 27/07/2022, 06:20
Prague – The tent city for Ukrainian refugees in Prague’s Malešice has been closed since today. The municipality merged it with the small town in Troja, because the number of refugees decreased. Only the tents remained on the Malešice meadow, which, according to the municipality’s spokesman Tadeáš Provazník, will be preserved and prepared for several weeks, should it be necessary to use them again in the future. On Tuesday, there were a total of 64 refugees in both towns, while the capacity of each of them is 150 places. In total, over 2,400 people passed through the town.
The refugees crossed from Malešice to Troja on Tuesday afternoon by buses of the transport company (DPP). Already in the morning, firefighters transported container cells, part of other facilities and also bulky equipment to Troja. The capacity of the combined area will be 250 beds, and the operation will be provided by approximately 30 people.
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.