The youth meeting point in Peiting causes trouble - the local council draws conclusions

The space behind the building yard should be a place where young people from Peitingen can meet undisturbed.

But that's over for now.

After complaints, the municipal council pulled the rip cord at its most recent meeting.

The allegations are serious.

Peiting

- The small group of seats on the building yard has a peaceful effect.

Employees of the construction yard made three benches and a table from pallets and grouped them under a tree.

There is a garbage can next to it.

Anyone who “The children is sitting here looks directly at the new soccer field below on Untereggstrasse.

The community intended the square as a meeting point for young people, who also make good use of it.

But now they have to look for another place, because the municipal council decided in its most recent meeting to remove all furniture.

Local council reports of intolerable conditions

Alexander Zila had previously reported unsustainable conditions. The clique that meets there regularly not only consume drugs and alcohol, but also threaten children who want to play on the football field there. “They don't dare to do it anymore.” A child's cell phone was “pulled”, Zila reported angrily. “The youngsters hang around there and don't know what to do. It's just getting too much now. ”Even on their way to training, children and carers have already been harassed, said Zila. The local council emphasized that the idea for the meeting point was a good idea in and of itself. Unfortunately, now that there is more going on on the site due to the new soccer fields, things are backfiring. "It cannot be that our people are threatened there." Zila not only suggestedto remove the seating, but also advised to contact the street worker.

There have been problems before

Mayor Peter Ostenrieder recalled that there had already been problems nine months ago.

At that time strangers had celebrated a night of partying and not only left behind a pile of rubbish, but also "decorated" the paved parking lot in front of the fire station with graffiti spraying (we reported).

At the time, the local council spoke out in favor of trying again in a good way.

Youth officer Florian Deibler (CSU) was also annoyed by the "chaos".

Their behavior harms those who behave decently.

He hopes that the young people will go back to the youth center more when it opens again.

"I'm also in favor of removing the seating area."

His group colleague Michael Deibler took this as an opportunity to remember the young citizens' meeting three years ago.

At that time, the participants particularly wanted a place to meet freely and outside of facilities such as the Juze.

It will therefore not be possible to prevent the young people from continuing to come together in such a place.

"But then we need someone who looks at it," he demanded.

He did not want to have such a fundamental discussion today, said the mayor.

“I'm interested in a picture of whether we should remove the seating area.” In the end, all of the local councils agreed on this.

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