Pasewalk (dpa/mv) – Around 200 people protested in Pasewalk (West Pomerania-Greifswald) against the construction of new accommodation for around 300 refugees. A spokeswoman for the initiative handed over Mayor Danny Rodewald (independent) at the meeting of the main committee on Monday evening and 1600 signatures against the project. The main committee then decided that the city representatives should decide on leasing the municipal property to the district on March 2nd. There was no discussion in the Main Committee.
The district sees its previous capacities for accommodating refugees at full capacity and is looking for alternative locations. Pasewalk’s mayor offered a 4,500-square-meter site in the east of the city, which is home to around 10,000 people. The city representatives should now decide whether the area will be leased to the district for three years, as planned.
According to District Administrator Michael Sack (CDU), it is a modular building, not a classic container. In Greifswald, further accommodation in a disused hotel with space for more than 130 people is to be opened by mid-March.