Red Cross: "The begging has dropped an incredible amount in Kungsbacka"

At the association's second hand shop we meet Anna-Leena Kuronen.

She shakes her head when the previously revoked begging decision comes up and when SVT tells us that the Moderates now want to come up with a new proposal for a ban on begging.

"You can't ban people from asking for help if they need help," she says.

Certainly there is begging in Kungsbacka. But the Red Cross's experience is that it has decreased a lot over the past year.

Since a few years ago, there were around twenty EU migrants who regularly came to the municipality to beg that there are now less than half as many, Anna-Leena Kuronen estimates.

Earlier, the Red Cross partnered with the Swedish Church in Kungsbacka to arrange shower facilities for EU migrants. Today, the association does not conduct any targeted activities for this group, but they still have regular contact.

Some of them go to the Red Cross's second-hand shop to buy used clothes or warm up with a cup of coffee in the association's café, says Anna-Leena Kuronen.