In the asylum dispute in St. Georgen/A. it’s heading towards escalation. Alternative solution instead of camping on site is rejected by the mayor. Mentioned alternate quarters unfinished. But now the state and federal government have agreed that the 130 asylum seekers will leave the tents and move into the state quarters.
Escalation – that’s what it comes down to in St. Georgen im Attergau. As is known, the 17 shelter tents must be vacated and removed after the mayor’s building permit decision. Local chief Ferdinand Aigner rejected an alternative solution from the Ministry of the Interior on the site of the first shelter: “They asked if containers could be set up. I immediately said no because then again there would be problems with the initiation and building rights. In addition, with the existing site we more than sufficiently contribute to the asylum problem in the district”, the local manager also does not want to “take the blame for the homelessness of the 100 tent residents promised by the care institution”.
The state of Upper Austria also supports the mayor’s approach and sees the federal government as an obligation: “We make more than 100 places available every week. Who they fill them with is beyond our competence,” says the office of Integration Councilor Wolfgang Hattmannsdorfer – places for the 130 asylum seekers in the tents are available in any case. It has now been agreed that these will also be occupied by people from the tents – the Federal Support Center had previously threatened to make the asylum seekers homeless. Incidentally, all the politicians involved – from mayor to state councilor to minister – are friends with the People’s Party.
Alternative places to stay for the tent refugees in Hirschbach im Mühlkreis (16 places) and Ried im Innkreis (about 60 places) had already been discussed before the agreement. But neither are ready for occupancy, in the Mühlviertel, where there is also a signature list by 15 minutes, people do not want to open without the intervention of care organizations and in Ried a former Ukrainian neighborhood is being adapted for the long-term occupation.
Source: Krone
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