As of: February 6, 2024, 6:40 p.m
By: Katrin Hager
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Full attention: Police officers accompanied the meeting.
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The mood quickly reached a boiling point: hundreds attended the citizens' meeting in Warngau on Monday evening for asylum accommodation on the Vivo.
The district administrator was met with anger and derision.
Warngau
- The district's planned accommodation for up to 500 asylum seekers on the Vivo in Warngau is being hotly discussed.
The mood at the citizens' meeting on Monday evening was just below boiling point before it began, the hall in the Gasthof Zur Post and the square in front of it were packed.
According to police, around 800 people took part.
District Administrator Olaf von Löwis (CSU) was repeatedly met with cheering, anger and malice in the hall.
Mayor Klaus Thurnhuber (FWG) had said that heckling would not be tolerated so that everyone could speak freely;
in fact, he barely intervened.
Especially outside, where the speeches were broadcast via loudspeakers, the emotions were emphasized with whistles, tractor horns and, at the end, even shouts of “We are the people”.
From a police perspective, the meeting was unproblematic, confirmed at the request of the head of the Holzkirchen police station (PI), Christian Gollwitzer, who was on site with PI forces and support staff from the Central Emergency Services (ZED) from Rosenheim.
“The situation was emotional but peaceful.”
Full forecourt: Taubenbergstrasse in front of the Gasthof Zur Post was closed to traffic due to the rush.
Loudspeakers broadcast the statements on the hall microphone outside.
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Not only people from Warngau are speaking out
Löwis explained in detail what circumstances led to the planning at Vivo and how the accommodation should be set up in terms of care, supply and mobility.
Given the undertone of questions about safety such as “Can it be ruled out that young men visit the surrounding playgrounds and bathing facilities?”, Löwis made it clear: “The people in the gyms are not criminals.” According to the police, the problems are manageable .
Yelling showed that not all visitors were open to this.
The district administrator remained silent about the costs of the accommodation, citing private law contracts.
However, he assured that the costs were “significantly” below the 15 million or more that a member of the Holzkirchner local council had reported at the meeting there.
After the questionnaire, local residents had their say.
The quickest to get to the microphone was Alexandra Motschmann from Gmund, who later described herself as a representative of The Basis, Values Union and AfD and advocated for more referendums like in Switzerland.
Andreas Winhart from Bad Aibling, who introduced himself as a member of the state parliament without mentioning his affiliation with the AfD, also did not miss the opportunity to step up to the microphone.
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But predominantly people from Warngau spoke up.
One person, for example, appealed to the community to sue if the district office should replace the lack of agreement on the building application for the accommodation.
They wanted to find out more, said the town hall boss, but also made it clear: “If I have no chance of success, I can't do it.” Another didn't trust the statement that the accommodation would really be dissolved after two years and would then be available Properties will be distributed, as Beate Faus, head of the accommodation task force at the district office, made clear with reference to the contract terms (“the two years are really fixed”).
Full house: Mayor Olaf von Löwis (standing on the right) and Mayor Klaus Thurnhuber (sitting on the right) faced the citizens in the hall.
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Critics express concerns about security
A car dealer in the Birkerfeld industrial estate made clear his concerns about what would happen if his expensive sports cars were damaged by asylum seekers.
The crowd did not accept the district administrator's counter question about what would happen if Germans damaged his cars.
“That cannot be insured, you know that yourself,” said the district administrator;
There is only liability insurance for damage to the accommodation.
“We all fear that we will be confronted with these issues,” replied the entrepreneur.
The fact that a security service will be present in the accommodation around the clock caused either mistrust as to why it was necessary or concerns that it might not be enough to “keep 500 refugees in check”, as one of the people who spoke out said expressed.
Farmer Monika Gschwendtner from Draxlham also expressed fear when she had to go out to the stable at night or when the children were out alone.
She and her daughter Maria, who had initiated a signature campaign against the large accommodation facility, used the framework to hand over the lists to the district administrator: a total of 3,973 people had signed on an online platform and on the lists displayed in Warngau;
the online petition was closed at 3,316 signatures.
Only a few dared to represent other positions in the heated atmosphere at the microphone.
The Warngau doctor and former Green councilor Winfried Dresel as well as the councilors Michael Spannring (Greens) and Anton Bader (FWG) were also confronted with rejection and sometimes boos from the hall.
At the end of the three-hour meeting, the district administrator was taken out of the hall through a side entrance under security protection.
In the end, town hall boss Thurnhuber and resident Monika Gschwendtner agreed on one thing: they both said when asked that they couldn't have expected more from the evening.
The mayor hopes that the pressure on the citizens is now out of the cauldron.
Gschwendtner hopes that the heated atmosphere will calm down again.
And, even if it can't be prevented, everything goes well with the large accommodation in her neighborhood.