In Wiesbaden, complaints from residents, business people and customers about the increasing number of homeless camps in the city center are piling up. “We have pressure in the boiler,” confirms Christoph Manjura (SPD), Head of Social Affairs. Ariane Würzberger, head of the Social Services and Job Center, announces a first draft for a new municipal ordinance for the fall, which will take into account both the concerns of the homeless and annoyed citizens. The Mainz association “Rheinhessen Helps” expresses sharp criticism of the city and accuses it, among other things, of “illegal behavior”. An agreed appointment has failed once.
“I just didn’t know what to do,” a Wiesbaden businessman told the FAZ about his helplessness and reports of a homeless man who camped in front of the garage he rented in the city center for several days. The man did not respond to several attempts to talk and repeated requests to move the warehouse a few meters so that the garage could be used again. “When he wasn’t in his camp a few days ago, I took his things and threw them in the garbage can. Since then I’ve been able to use my garage again,” says the man from Wiesbaden, who, however, felt very uncomfortable about it. He doesn’t want to read his name in the newspaper because he’s afraid of hostilities.
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