Simferopol ‘authorities’ and ‘police’ confirm a sharp increase in the number of persons with no fixed abode (homeless people) and road beggars who came in Crimea from Russia.
According to the ‘head’ of the city administration Gennady Bakharev, there is an increasing number of homeless people in the Crimean capital in the winter, but neither ‘authorities’ nor ‘police’ can do anything to raise charges against them until homeless citizens have committed any crime.
“This is not a new situation for us, we face with it every year and simply have no systematic approach. We have limited powers, including the ones to construct a shelter for homeless people. They (the homeless) are, so saying, of republican significance, because they go to the sea in the summer and then return to the cities in the winter, and while being the largest city of the republic, we get more problems than all others,” Bakharev said.
According to the ‘deputy chief’ of the riot police of the Russian MIA Department for Simferopol Sergey Nikitin, they started to conduct preventive measures to work with beggars, who significantly grew in number, in the Crimean capital.
“We will find out the sources, from where they came and who supervises them,” he said and added that, according to recent reports, beggars come in Crimea from other regions of Russia.
