Babiš’s black horse in Prague Patrik Nacher: Scooters illustrate the incompetence of the coalition! What is my solution?
As part of the Hell in Prague series, the editors of Expres regularly draw attention to places in the capital that are normally avoided. Abandoned parks and dilapidated buildings have become havens for drug addicts and the homeless, who bother Prague residents and tourists in the city center.
Patrik Nacher, who is the leader of Prague’s ANO candidate in the municipal elections and would like to succeed Mayor Zdenek Hřiba, is understandably well aware of this problem.
“It can’t be changed by waving a magic wand. There are three kinds of solutions. The first is long-term prevention, which is about investing in sports and leisure activities. The funds will return to you in 15-20 years. Then there is the prevention of building an office in crisis areas. When a police car is parked there, it acts as a precaution, like when you see policemen with machine guns at the airport. No one expects there to be a shooting, but it is prevention. The third point is repression, which is already getting worse and is related to the criminal law in the Czech Republic. For example, I have been criticizing for a long time when a person who has a higher punishment for self-cultivation of cannabis for medicinal purposes than someone for a violent crime. That has to change,” Nacher, who worked together with the chairman of the social committee at the municipality and spent a lot of time among Prague’s homeless, told Expres.
Prague handles the work with the homeless very well, others are also inspired by us
As part of his work On this place, he visited the well-known homeless colony under the Hlávkov bridge, where Expres editors regularly go to collect stories of homeless people.
“There was a gentleman with a dog who had lived there for about 10 years. I don’t know if he’s still there.” recalls Nacher.
“It is essential that low-threshold centers that help homeless people work. The task of the city is to ensure that the capacity is sufficient and that the centers are scattered. When the contact points are huge and hundreds of people meet there, there is danger. But when it comes to working with the homeless, Prague is historically very good across the political spectrum. We are also inspired by other metropolises from Europe,” remarked the politician.
But Nacher doesn’t like it when Prague gives out apartments to non-adaptable citizens. The editors of Expres also drew attention to this issue in the past.
“Prague gave away apartments on Řepy or Černý most to some such people. However, teachers and nurses live in the same house. They are now in an unpleasant environment, they can’t sleep, there is a mess and the like. There is no simple recipe for this, but when someone is homeless, it doesn’t work by giving them an apartment and thereby helping them. I must not be a lifelong help, but a short-term one,” I think Nacher.
Nacher is also the co-author of the so-called grace summer, which will allow debtors to get rid of their foreclosures more easily. How do you see the continuation of the project today, when the high cost of energy, services and goods can have a negative impact on the large number of people who sign up? And how will the second round be different?
“The difference is in the overall economic situation, in which we give people the opportunity to resolve their debts to public institutions. After all, Fial’s inflation is 17%. I would not be surprised if the current high cost of energy, services and goods has a negative impact on a large number of people who sign up by the end of November. The basic rule is still the same. If the debtor pays the original amount owed, or principal, and 1,815 crowns to the executor, interest, penalties and other payments will be waived and the enforcement proceedings will end.” informs Nacher.
Patrik Nacher showed off his tattoos at the Anděl stand.
The scooters illustrate the incompetence of the current coalition
The deputy and candidate for mayor also adds to another problem, and that is the shared scooters that are lying around everywhere, and it seems that the leadership of Prague is at a loss in this matter.
“The scooters beautifully illustrate the incompetence of the current coalition, which has terribly high-flying opinions and platitudes and then the deed runs away. The city is unable to come to an agreement, so it works like the wild east. Here, a vigorous approach with operators is needed, as when I probably tightened the currency exchange law,” says Nacher.
“We would be better at solving this problem than countries from the West, because these things (scooters and the like) arrive late. The solution is to clearly mark out where the scooter can be parked and those places will be clearly indicated. For example, a thrown scooter on the sidewalk is a big problem for blind people. If the person in question does not park, then the service should still be running for him, and at that moment he is financially motivated to park the scooter in the designated place and not just throw it away.” added Nacher in conclusion.