Tobias Bluhm reports on the Berlin ePrix not taking part at the Tempelhof airport in 2016.

The Berlin ePrix will not take place at Berlin-Tempelhof airfield. According to the ‘Berliner Zeitung’, all 33 events at the air base planned for the next year have been cancelled along with the Formula E race next May.

As a result of the European refugee crisis, the site is currently used as a refugee camp for asylum seekers in Berlin. The area, where the track was built last summer, is urgently necessary for supplying the hangars, which are expected to be filled up with up to 3,000 refugees by May 2016.

Along with Formula E, other fairs, concerts and festivals have been cancelled and must be moved to other places in the German capital.

The Berlin Senate only just changed a law dating from 2014, which allows the town to build temporary homes and halls for refugee accommodation at the outer borders of the airfield.

“We are currently checking alternatives for the location of the event”, says Constance Doll, spokeswoman of ‘Tempelhof Project’ in an interview with the daily paper.

For the time being, it is unknown where the event could be moved. Previously, Formula E’s CEO Alejandro Agag has explicitly stressed the importance of a race in the German capital.