Since Thursday, the rooms are on the ground floor of the trift street 42 empty. Up to Wednesday’s Wedding, the children’s aid, an organization for cancer and seriously ill children lived in the Sprengelkiez in Berlin.
Only a few minutes away from the Rudolf-Virchow-hospital, where many of the children are treated and the parents to take the seriously ill to a parent’s café. Actually, the perfect location, but the Situation in the neighborhood became unbearable for the club: Three Times, was broken into within four months, two Times successfully.
the front door break open As the perpetrators for the first Time, you will be rewarded richly: 1000 Euro in cash, which were donated to the club. The employees respond, increase the safety precautions, so that the second break-in attempt fails. As the third Time, finally, cameras, Tablets, donate houses, and the cash to disappear to the club.
“nobody feels safe anymore,” says Birgit Wetzig-Zalkind of the children’s aid. “People have no inhibitions any more.” And with people Wetzig says-Zalkind, the drug addicts in the area, the Tathintergrund: a life of crime.
“For us, the Junkies lying in the hall and put up a shot.”
at the nearby metro station is dealt Amrumer road with more drugs, is also in the police of Berlin known. To lead how this fact more crime in the area, could not be verified, police said on request. Only eleven offences in connection with narcotics crime were registered from January 2018 until the end of March 2019 in trift street, with the addition of 79 burglary-related offences in the road, the Background is largely unknown.
The Association suspected of crime
However, Birgit Wetzig-Zalkind and families with seriously ill children experienced the Situation every day on the way to children’s help: “Here there is a more aggressive selling drugs, children and parents are addressed, Volunteers sometimes have no desire to us to come,” reports Wetzig-Zalkind: “we are the Junkies in the hallway and put up a shot.” A father was attacked by drug addicts in the house, as he asked in front of his children the needle.
The damaged entrance door of the children’s aid in the trift street.Children help e. V.
in addition to the break-ins at the children’s aid is still a basement shack, and several letter boxes were in the due renovation of mostly vacant buildings broken up, the suspects, the police not yet known. Wetzig-Zalkind hurts especially, the join of ruthlessness of the perpetrators, especially in the case of the children’s aid: “On our sign – in help for cancer and seriously ill children.” As the employees came in the Morning after the last break-in, the rooms, the pictures had the children painted for an auction, damaged, scattered on the ground. “It hurts already.”
Since today, the children’s lives help in tower street. “We had a lot of luck,” says Wetzig-Kalkind, a doctors home took up the Association, the rent is affordable and the neighbours are friendly. The hospital is now no longer within walking distance, but the children’s aid again in safety.
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