2023-08-21 15:53:03
Since the beginning of the summer, the city of Namur has decided to ban begging near shopping malls. A temporary measure, taken for 4 months, for health and safety reasons. But homeless people and the associations that support them do not hear it that way. Several dozen people had met on Monday morning in front of the entrance to a shopping mall opposite the station. A place where Nikita and the others sometimes feel harassed by law enforcement.
There is no point, they say, in hiding misery, that will not make it disappear. The city of Namur, through its mayor, Maxime Prévot, defends its regulations, which, according to him, do not target begging as such, but the aggressiveness of some. An evaluation of the measure is planned for the start of the school year, but there is no question of withdrawing it.
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