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Linz Mayor Luger’s demand is clear: the Minister of the Interior should cancel the contracts for accommodation in the former Hotel Ibis and in the ÖBB home on Unionstrasse “with immediate effect”. In addition, one should undertake not to rent “mass quarters in Linz” in the future. One may respect the strategy of the city government. This provides for only units with up to 50 care places to be rented for asylum accommodation.
Luger is worried about the “social overload” at the planned location: “The resentment that quickly spread among the people of Linz contains social explosives.” The will of the population is ignored and in an “already socially burdened urban area” such mass accommodation is “an unmanageable social challenge.”
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As reported, it became known only on Thursday that in the former ibis-Hotel to accommodate up to 300 refugees. The next day there was the next bad news for Mayor Luger. 80 to 100 refugees are accommodated in the former ÖBB apprentice home on Unionstraße. The Asylum accommodation of the Federal Care Agency (BBU) points out that the maximum capacity is only used when necessary. Basically, both the former ibis as well as the apprentice home for transitional quarters. The refugees should be distributed as quickly as possible to smaller country shelters.
Source: Nachrichten
