25 Ukrainian Roma moved quietly to Prague 5. “We’ll take them out of our teeth,” the locals rage
According to initial information, the relocation of 120 Ukrainian Roma to Vrchlický Street was to be an initiative of Mayor Zdeněk Hřiby. The Prague 5 Council sharply criticized him for this, called the decision incompetent and issued a joint statement.
“We strongly disagree with the location of about 120 Roma refugees of Ukrainian nationality in the Prague 5 district, in Vrchlického street, without consultation with the Prague 5 district, mainly due to the fact that the selected locality is critically burdened with a significant amount of addictive substances (proximity to Husovy sady, low-threshold facilities for Mahenova Street and the substitution treatment office for drug addicts in Erbenova Street, including the adjacent pharmacy), “ stands in it.
However, the mayor denied that it was his decision.
“This is not my authoritative decision, but the decision of the private owner of the building,” told the server PrahaIN.cz.
The thing then kind of faded away. Nobody really knows what happened with the relocation of 120 Ukrainian Roma to Vrchlický Street. The whole event is all the more mysterious because they were supposed to be placed, as Hřib said, in a private building, but nowhere was it mentioned. Expres.cz went to Vrchlického street to find out more.