Sweden

BEGGARS IN UTOPIA, THE CROWDED STREETS OF STOCKHOLM…….

Conundrums in Swedish la la land.

This is what happens when you play loose and fancy free with other people’s wealth and society, you encourage yet more indigents to crowd your streets looking for handouts from the private and public sectors. Sweden busily driving its society into the sewers of humanity.

“We have seen a need for the social services to play a more active role, and try to find these people and see if they need and want help.”
He added that there are more beggars on Stockholm’s streets than ever before, and that many have no source of income at all.

Stockholm launches ‘beggar hotline’

Stockholm launches 'beggar hotline'

A homeless Romanian girl in Stockholm. Photo: Jessica Gow/TT

Published: 13 Jun 2014 17:18 GMT+02:00

The past few years have seen a dramatic increase in homelessness in Stockholm, largely due to migrants from poorer EU nations.

“Unfortunately many of these people are living under very difficult conditions,” Stockholm political secretary Ole-Jörgen Persson told The Local.

“We have seen a need for the social services to play a more active role, and try to find these people and see if they need and want help.”

He added that there are more beggars on Stockholm’s streets than ever before, and that many have no source of income at all.

Immigrants from countries such as Romania frequently end up with neither job nor shelter in the city, crouching in doorways and hunching in the corners of subway stations hoping for a bit of spare change.

The Stockholm social services department has now received an additional 5 million kronor ($750 million) from the city, funds with which they plan to hire a team of Romanian-speaking social welfare workers to work exclusively with homeless EU immigrants. In addition, a telephone hotline will be launched on June 18th.

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3 Responses

  1. The “Romanian/Bulgarians” beggars are Everywhere these days. I live in a small town here in Sweden and there are beggars on the town square, outside the entrances to the city malls, outside the liquor-store entrance, outside the entrances of the biggest outercity mall and at the entrance of Every Single grocery store in town. They site there looking miserable, voicing miserable pleas for money. Sometimes you meet the more creative kind of beggar – the type that approaches you with what (to the inexperienced) seems like a gift of a flower, but actually turns out to be a something that they expect to be payed for once you’ve accepted the “gift”. The last one I became familiar with as a child when my family went on vacation to Spain so I’m certainly not falling for that. From what I can tell, most people they approach know what it’s about as well.

    I’m not heartless – I feel for their plight. But I also know that looking miserable and dressing miserable and sounding miserable is part of the “sales tactic”. I know people that’s given quite a bit, but most don’t and some that tell me they give money get quite defensive, making me think they’ve faced harsh words from friends/family for having given.

    In many places, including around here, they’re been fights over “territory” among different clans for the spots to beg. Give money to beggars and find out that there’s an endless supply of potential beggars in Romania/Bulgaria etc. that can come here to fight for the best spots to beg.

    Oh, and we voted for and installed code-locks on the doors in my housing association because we got fed-up with beggars actually coming around to our homes to beg. Sometimes an adult with a small child, sometimes children alone.

    There has, of course, also been a vast increase of burglaries, but I suspect that these are a different type of “Eastern European”. Very professional – I think even the police are impressed. Unfortunately, this means that only four (4) percent of the burglaries are cleared up by the police. Growing up, I knew no one that had a home alarm. These days, I don’t know anyone, not living in an apartment, that doesn’t have an home alarm system.

    1. I agree Jacob, this is all a criminal racket dressed up as homeless people. I never give money, and advise people ready to give money to avoid doing so.

      1. Best approach is not to give at all.

        The beggars would have no incentive to continue begging then.

        Sounds heartless but by reinforcing the begging life style, it is perpetuated and worsened.

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