The mayor of Amiens points an anti-begging order | EUROtoday

This decree will thus permit the intervention of the municipal police who will be capable to “ask people not to behave aggressively on the streets in question, therefore on the pedestrian area”, and high-quality them. The streets delimited by this decree haven’t but been specified by the municipality. According to Le Figarothis decree will even be restricted in time, from Tuesday morning to Saturday night, when companies are open within the pedestrian space of ​​the town middle.

“We have people who are afraid”

This resolution follows requests from merchants who complain concerning the habits of some homeless folks. “We have people who are afraid, customers who tell us so, so we literally have to keep things clean and get back to normal,” the supervisor of a retailer within the metropolis middle advised France 3.

READ ALSO “An unprecedented situation”: the variety of homeless folks is exploding in Paris and the areaNearby Figarothe mayor of Amiens additionally expressed her worry of seeing homeless folks arrive earlier than the Olympics, as in Orléans, “people who would have nothing to do with [sa] city ​​and who would arrive there because they would be chased out of Paris.” Similar decrees have been taken in recent years by several cities in France but they have generally been overturned by the Council of State, as in Bayonne in 2020.