From the start, the city of Vienna wants to show that it is serious about the ban on alcohol at Floridsdorfer Franz-Jonas-Platz: the prohibition zone was not yet 16 hours old when there was already the first focus campaign with a result that is also a surprising result For the officials.
The red prohibition signs were installed late in the night of 7 February, but in the afternoon and therefore on the first day of the new alcohol prohibition zone on Franz-Jonas-Platz was taken seriously: a focus campaign showed the police and showed the Viennese group Immediate measures that the prohibition is more than just a threatening gesture.
No empty beer cans, but a Schnapps depot
However, the officials and district leaders Georg Papai could find: the clientele, who had also populated the place with a lot of beer, wine and schnapps the night before, apparently the prohibition takes seriously for the first time. “Not even an empty beer can” had to be found, said a uniformed official after the entire zone was checked by different teams in Tours.
The officials only found it in a snack bar: the man behind the counter had a friend with a can with a can of beer as a company – and moreover a hidden load full of small Schnapps vials, whose sale he was not justified.
It is clear to everyone that the balance of the first “dry day” on Franz-Jonas-Platz was only a snapshot. Walter Hillerer, head of the urban group of immediate measures, promised “continuous checks, especially during the warm season”. The Pratersn shows how effective this is, where the alcohol ban has been applicable since 2018.
Stripes keep their eyes open in the area
The director in Floridsdorf expects that the previous ‘regular customers’ of the square will probably look in the future, but that is already in police work. In the afternoon of the first focus campaign, the Patrol police officers also paid special attention to the Floridsdorfer Spitz and the Schlingermarkt.
Papai was consistently satisfied with the Ban-an-MENNING that he apparently also shares with a lot of Floridsdorfer: during his last weekend shopping in the Schlingermarkt he hardly came to work through the shopping list because of the encouragement of many citizens, he said.
The officials do not share criticism that the alcohol problem on the field is only shifted by the prohibition zone. Every scattering of the scene ensures smaller groups in which the situation does not escalate so quickly: “You have to imagine that like with football hooligans. The more there are, the faster situations can swing up. ‘A real threat was hardly of the groups, but there were actually’ unreasonable ‘situations for the general sense of the general sense. That should finally be over.
Source: Krone
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