“My moral resources are depleted.” A New Europe correspondent visited several refugee camps in the Netherlands and tried to understand why their residents attempt suicide so often — Novaya Gazeta Europe

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“My moral resources are depleted.” A New Europe correspondent visited several refugee camps in the Netherlands and tried to understand why their residents attempt suicide so often — Novaya Gazeta Europe

Antonina Babkina, a Russian transgender girl, committed suicide in January 2024 in the Wageningen camp in the Netherlands. This was at least the fifth suicide case among refugees from Russia. The media that wrote about this come to the conclusion that the main problem is the lack of timely psychological and psychiatric assistance. The New Europe correspondent traveled to the Netherlands to see from the inside how refugee camps work and to talk w…