Epping hotel asylum seeker says ‘we’re in the dark’ about future

According to an immigrant living there, asylum seekers living in a hotel in Essex remained in the “dark” about their future.

People in Bell Hotel in EPPING Because it was transported until September 12th A Supreme Judge after determining that his existence violates planning laws.

There are thousands of people Participated in anti -immigrant protests And since July, opposite demonstrations outside the hotel.

Abdi, a Somali man who said he was moved to the hotel in May, said, “One day we don’t know if a bus is coming and we say we’ll leave here.”

Lawyers for Bell Hotel and Home Office Temporary precautionary measure decision This meant that 138 male asylum seekers had to be evacuated from the field.

Judges in the Court of Appeal are expected to make their decisions at 14:00 on Friday.

Abdi, not the real name, the BBC Radio 4’s host pm program will not solve the main reason for the problem, he said.

“If this happens – if we get out of this place – then they will definitely get us from anywhere we go. It will be the same.”

“Nobody says anything,” he said to the residents and added: “We are only in the dark.”

A terrorist said he had escaped from the group and traveled to England for three years, and came to a small boat he paid € 1,000 (£ 864) for the building.

Authorized, “from Türkiye to Greece, Austria to France,” he said, but several asylum applications in previous countries were rejected.

Abdi criticized some of the asylum seekers living in Bell Hotel, saying he saw wars, drunkenness and drug use.

“Some people’s behavior is not good, it makes us look very bad,” he said.

Hadush Kebatu, an Ethiopian living in the hotel Sexual assault on a 14 -year -old girl In EPPING. Rejects crimes.

“We haven’t been out since the incident,” he said.

“[We face] Real intimidation, real hostility. First [the protests] ‘Will they go in?’ I was like. “

When Abdi left the hotel to buy food or go to a Jobcenter, some people said he would insult him.

“People in empty regions meet you [and] ‘Scumbag, you are this, you say – humiliating words’ he explained.

“There was no such thing before.”

Despite his situation, Abdi said that many people understand why he was angry with asylum seekers.

If he felt safe to live in Somalia and there was a “mass migration” that he had branded, he confessed that he would not accept it.

“I am with people who say this is enough,” he said. “Logical, reasonable, logical.”

At the end of this parliament, the government promised to use a hotel to host asylum seekers.

Border Security Minister Dame Angela Eagle said the government will “continue to work with local authorities and communities to resolve legitimate concerns”.