They not only piss here and there, but also attack passers-by, while the city administration idly watches the untenable situation. The mayor does not deal with public cleanliness, and the only job of public officials is to hand out fines.
It is not exactly a heartwarming sight to see a fellow human being doing his job or just pleasuring himself, perhaps drunkenly making out with an imaginary acquaintance, or worse, with a flesh-and-blood person. Nevertheless, these scenes have become commonplace in Budapest, not only in busy Pest squares and underpasses, but also in parts of Buda.
The XI. district residents are amazed at what is happening; to read more and more complaints in the district groups about the physical and moral destruction the homeless are wreaking at Lake Feneketlen, Móricz Zsigmond Square or Kelenföld.
People turn to the police and the municipality, but it turned out that
the public area supervision in the district is entrusted with issuing fines and not with maintaining order, and the DK civil guard was built by the mayor, who does nothing for public cleanliness.
“This district he has come to is intolerable; Újbuda center has become a contagion in a few years, bringing all the "charm" and filth of the old Blaha. They have crossed a line, and so has the city administration, as they are watching this," writes one outraged resident in a closed group in Újbuda.
But he is not the only one who is upset that the district has been overrun by homeless people, because the problem with them is not only that they cause public health problems with their street lifestyle, but also that they are becoming more and more dangerous.
Nóra, for example, wrote that an apparently mentally abnormal woman screamed at her on the bus because she didn't like that she was standing there. Here, things did not escalate to the point of violence, unlike in Móricz Zsigmond square, where a young man was beaten by a homeless person. Katalin shared the story:
"A guy walked past them (homeless people - ed.) and one of the homeless guys jumped on him from behind and started beating him. After that, after the other homeless guy took it off the guy, they started going after people they just didn't like. My 8-year-old son had to watch this while snuggling next to me, and he asked several times if he wasn't going to hurt us?!"
Several people wrote that they reported their problem to the municipality, but some turned to the police - in vain.
The Pesti Srácok were curious as to whose job it is to fix the homeless issue and how the district had sunk to such a level in a few years, so they contacted the Fidesz-KDNP mayoral candidate of Újbuda.
Nóra Király said that during the time of István Tarlós, as a result of enormous work, it was possible to put order in the capital and the districts, which the current capital leadership destroyed, and the districts are also drinking the juice of this. But no one should think that the DK-led Újbuda municipality is only a victim of the situation, since Imre László does not deal with public cleanliness, he destroyed the civil guard, and for the sake of income, the public authorities were given the task of only imposing penalties, thus increasing the budget of the municipality. That's why they don't care about the homeless or keeping things clean.
By the way, the mayoral candidate was not at all surprised by the stories that could be read in the group, since he himself had already seen a homeless person doing great work at the Bottomless Lake, which horrified him.
It is no coincidence that the restoration of public safety and public cleanliness was at the center of his mayoral program.
Király would like to establish the Újbuda police force, which would also cooperate with the public area supervision and the civil guard. According to experience so far, the left-wing districts are saving money on this: András Pikó, the mayor of Józsefváros, also took away the support from the police, reduced the number of public space supervision, and Gergely Karácsony removed trash cans and allowed people to live on the streets. And the consequences can already be seen in the districts of Buda. According to Nóra Király (and also according to most normal thinking people), this state of affairs is not good for anyone.
Cover image: Unblessed conditions prevail in Újbuda
Source: Pesti Srácok
