Do not give money to beggars, they are exploited, urges the municipality of Kifissia

In bid to support susceptible citizens and guarantee nationalist order, the Municipality of Kifissia is making a wide entreaty to residents and visitors of the metropolis not to connection wealth to radical asking for handouts connected the street.

More specifically, arsenic the Municipal Authority points out, offering wealth to beggars, nary substance however well-intentioned, often does not connection immoderate important help, arsenic it sustains phenomena of exploitation and criminal networks down begging.

Until 2018, begging was treated by the Criminal Code as a criminal offence. With the repeal of the applicable provision, the improvement began to tally rampant connected the streets of cities.

The deficiency of organization proviso near exposed not lone the citizens who are often confronted with oppressive oregon organized forms of begging, but besides the precise radical who are pushed into this situation, without immoderate extortion oregon anticipation of effectual societal care.

The repeal of the provision, which was intended to modernize the ineligible framework, successful signifier deprived the State of an involution tool. The effect is that regular beingness is burdened and our astir susceptible citizens stay exposed to schemes that exploit their weakness.

In Kifissia, lone successful the past twelvemonth tens of controls and arrests of beggars were carried out, pursuing interventions by the municipal authority. However, aft the applicable checks by the Greek Police, the aforesaid radical instrumentality to the aforesaid places and proceed their activity, which proves the gaps successful the existent framework.

For this reason, the Municipal Authority volition taxable a solution to the Municipal Council asking for the re-examination of the ineligible framework. The Mayor of Kifissia has already contacted the President of the KEDE, successful bid to question the adoption of a corresponding solution astatine the nationalist level.

The purpose is to make a new organization model that volition efficaciously shield society, support citizens and, astatine the aforesaid time, unfastened up indispensable avenues of societal enactment for those successful despair.

The Municipality of Kifissia volition proceed to consistently enactment the astir susceptible members of our nine done its societal structures and actions, insisting that solidarity indispensable beryllium expressed successful ways that respect and support people.

In a statement, the Mayor of Kifissia, Vassilis Xypolytas, stresses:

“I americium good alert that galore of our chap citizens, retired of bully intentions and with a willingness to offer, unreserved to springiness wealth to a idiosyncratic who approaches them connected the street. However, I privation to authorities intelligibly that this does not truly assistance those successful need.

Instead, it leaves them susceptible to cycles that exploit them and deprives them of the accidental to find enactment done organised structures.
Solidarity is not measured connected the thoroughfare with a fewer coins. It is measured by giving each chap quality being the accidental to get backmost connected their feet.

As a municipality, we person a work to amusement that solidarity is not conscionable a foundation of the moment, but a conscious enactment of caring. Kifissia wants to beryllium a metropolis that does not crook a unsighted oculus to hardship, but opens up paths of dignity and meaningful assistance for everyone.”