Bohuslav Svoboda on Hell in Prague: Hriba doesn’t care, refugees from Ukraine can be a problem
Used syringes are used in parks where young children go to play every day. Drug addicts in the center of Prague harass ordinary residents and also have their own territory, which they call “junkie bunkers”. Some time ago, the express launched a series of reports in which we drew attention to places that Praguers should rather avoid.
“So you have a full-time job,” Bohuslav Svoboda told us at the beginning of the interview, with whom we discussed Peklo in Prague in detail.
We found the most frightening places in Prague 5 around Anděl. Do you have an explanation for that?
The reason is probably the fact that subutex has always been issued in Prague 5 (drug substitute, editor’s note). There are three contact centers close to each other, that’s another problem. When I was mayor, it was the worst place in the park in front of Central Station.
How did you handle it then?
I bumped into the power of the townspeople there.
It worked?
The only thing I achieved was that the homeless and drug addicts had moved a little further again. They are looking for parks. When I push them out of Hlavák, they climb up to Vinohrady and make a center there. Prague has an overpressure of these people. 80 percent of them are outside Prague. Most of them come from smaller cities and move here.
Why is that?