«Magden (AG): Reception of refugees from the Moria camp»

Attendance

04.03.21: Submission of the petition with 12 signatures to the Magden municipal council, with the demands,

• to agree to take in 3 refugees from Moria;
• to call on the canton and the federal government to take the necessary measures to enable the reception of refugees from Moria;
• to coordinate with the cities and municipalities in the canton of Aargau as well as with Basel, Bern, Geneva, Lausanne, Lucerne, St. Gallen, Winterthur and Zurich, which are taking similar initiatives to take in people who have fled.

15.03.21 Rejection by the municipal council

The justification states that direct admission is not within the competence of the municipality. The admission of three people would also cause high costs, for which the municipal assembly would have to approve a budget.

This initiative is part of the campaign “500 people for Aargau”.

The refugee camps in Greece are in dire straits. Several tens of thousands of refugees are locked up in camps under the most degrading conditions. Their situation is so unbearable that at Easter 2020, the three national churches of Switzerland jointly appealed to the Federal Council to alleviate the tragedy and accept 5000 refugees from Greece into Switzerland.

The campaign “500 people for the municipalities in Aargau” takes up this appeal and wants to achieve that municipalities and cities voluntarily increase their quota for taking in people. In this way, they can create the necessary capacity in and with the canton for the government to register the “free space” with the federal government for the admission of people from precarious camps. Numerous communes have already given positive feedback.

Ask your municipality in Aargau to take in people too. The requests are coordinated by the association Netzwerk Asyl Aargau.

Letter template “500 people for the municipalities in Aargau”.

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