Bela pod Bezdezem, Central Bohemia, Aug 2 (CTK) – The capacity of the refugee detention centre in Bela pod Bezdezem has been increased to 700 and yesterday, the police will transfer there more than 100 refugees detained it the past few days, foreigner police spokeswoman Katerina Rendlova has told CTK.
On Friday, the police detained 136 illegal migrants in the Czech Republic and another ten were detained this morning.
Interior Minister Milan Chovanec (Social Democrats, CSSD) and Police President Tomas Tuhy said during their visit to the Bela facility on Friday that police units would be withdrawn from other regions to be deployed in Bela to improve its protection and that new facilities for refugees should also be established with the total number of 1200 beds by the years’s end.
The facility in Bela is used for the the detention of foreigners who have received a police decision on administrative expulsion from the Czech Republic.
Illegal migrants were revolting at the Bela facility on Thursday and Friday. More than 50 refugees attempted to escape from there on Thursday. The police had to reinforce the protection of the facility by patrols from Prague.
Some 30 refugees, families with children and a pregnant woman, were transferred from Bela pod Bezdezem to another facility in Zastavka u Brna, south Moravia, where 188 migrants stay now, on Friday evening for security reasons.
“There was calm and peace in the complex in Bela in the night and in the morning. Refugees detained in Stribro (west Bohemia) started to be transported there at 23:00 on Saturday, and others followed yesterday,” Rendlova said.
Foreigners in Bela are rioting since they want to be released and continue to Germany. They also strive for their mobile telephones and cash to be returned to them.
The foreigner police say the Czech Republic is only a marginal migration route from which most migrants would like to get to Germany over its generous welfare system. Most of the refugees are Afghanis, Syrians and Iraqis.
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