“Over 20 municipalities to prohibit begging,”
“Several municipalities can do that in skåne, Vellinge and introduce local tiggeriförbud.”
“In a survey made by Today’s Society respond 24 kommunstyrelseordförande – 22 of which are conservatives – they want to ban begging in the municipality.”
“– Begging is not a huge problem in Österåker. We have the begging in about five places, where there is a person in each place. But we think that this is a matter of principle, ” says Michaela Fletcher (M), municipal executive board chairman of Österåker, to Today’s Society.”
“the Newspaper sent the question to all of Sweden’s 290 municipalities, and received 162 responses (one of which is from Vellinge, sweden). In addition to the M-the politicians said, Torkild Strandberg (L) in Landskrona, sweden, and Göran Dahlström (S) in Katrineholm that they want to have local prohibitions against begging.”
“In the Centre party is the resistance to the tiggeriförbud strong in the municipalities. All 38 centerpartister who responded in the survey say no.”
“– There is already legislation that allows the police to intervene when there is organised crime behind beggary. To work against organized crime is more important than to hold on and move on people begging, ” says Hans-Göran Johansson (C), former police officer and now board chairman of Värnamo.”
“In the following municipalities have the mayor-president responded that it wants to introduce a local tiggeriförbud:”
“Sölvesborg (board vice-president Emilie Pilthammar (M) has responded to the survey)”
“Source: Today’s Society,”
