Heated debate in Lichtenberg: Asylum accommodation ensures turmoil!

Heated debate in Lichtenberg: Asylum accommodation ensures turmoil!

Landsberger Allee, 10367 Berlin, Deutschland - in Berlin-Lichtenberg, the anger of the residents is bubbling! A former hotel is to be converted into asylum accommodation for 1200 migrants, and the citizens are anything but enthusiastic. At a turbulent information event organized by CDU state parliamentarian Dennis Haustein, there were heated discussions. The hall was "breaking full" with around 200 angry citizens who kept interrupting the speakers and sometimes angry.

The planned accommodation in the former Hotel Berlin City East is scheduled to begin in the coming summer to relieve the overcrowded arrival center at Tegel Airport. The first migrants should move in in November! The residents take a breath of their displeasure: "The playgrounds are overcrowded, the supermarkets too! How should this go on?", She asked worried. Haustein received applause for his critical assessment of the situation, while district mayor Martin Schaefer (CDU) feels over: "The state of Berlin decides!"

protests and fears of the citizens

The concerns of the residents are diverse. A pensioner expresses that she only found out about the accommodation through the press and wonders how the social infrastructure, including schools and medical care, should deal with additional stress. Social City Councilor Catrin Gocksch (CDU) assures that the doctors will stay in the hotel. But the citizens are skeptical: "We do not make luxury apartments!", Emphasizes the spokesman for the State Office for Refugee Matters (LAF), Sascha Langenbach, and explains that the former hotel rooms are replaced by simple aluminum beds.

The discussion about the accommodation of refugees is accompanied by a feeling of threat. Lara Schmidgall, project employee of a neighborhood project, warns that social problems are not caused by refugees. The mood in the neighborhood is changing and support for migrants is becoming more and more urgent. The absence of social senator Cansel Kiziltepe (SPD) during the event caused further displeasure. In the end, a senior citizen expresses that the skyscrapers should have been better used for affordable senior citizens' apartments or student dormitories.