They professionally photograph it and use fictitious widows and orphans to evoke sympathy
Beggars from abroad seize charity funds with “fake videos”
Beggary gangs take advantage of the spirituality of the month of Ramadan to carry out fraud.
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Salem Al-Haiki: "Begging is a fraudulent project that touches the feelings of citizens and residents, and threatens the security of society."
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"Emirates Today" monitored high-quality video clips, sent to citizens and residents, from outside the country, including a video clip of a woman who hides her identity, accompanied by three children, and cries while begging, asking for help in the value of a bag of flour and a bag of sugar, claiming that she is a widow and sponsors orphans.
Also, beggars promoted, through text messages, social accounts and e-mail addresses, “fabricated” human cases and images, which included phrases of plea to help orphans, treat sick people, or build mosques and schools.
Citizens and residents emphasized that beggary during the month of Ramadan is a disturbing phenomenon that is more frequent every year than the previous year, as it employs groups of women and children, with the aim of begging benefactors, and seizing their sympathy to earn money, noting that beggary practitioners devise new methods every year.
They explained that the manifestations of beggary are no longer limited to a man or woman standing in front of a mosque, a hospital, a grocery store, or inside shopping mall parking lots to extend a hand, or some families pushing their children to the streets to beg and get spoils. Rather, the methods of begging have evolved with the development of means of communication, And beggars are now working from outside the country, through communication sites and chatting applications, to get the money of benefactors from inside the country.
Hamed Al Balushi, Mona Ahmed and Walaa Salah, residents of Abu Dhabi, said that some beggars stand with their children in front of groceries and butchers, begging everyone who enters these stores to fulfill their requests.
Others head to the car parks, to hunt citizens while they are moving with their vehicles, while part of them are active in the movement in front of the hospitals to beg the auditors, and blackmail their feelings, by claiming illness, and the inability to pay the value of the treatment, due to the insurance refusal to bear the fees, or because of the expiry of the residence, and the lack of health insurance.
Citizens and residents, Muhammad Al-Harthy, Khaled Khalifa, Wael Kamal, Mahmoud Abbas, and Samir Siddiq, indicated that they were stopped by beggars wearing Gulf clothes, and they were moving in four-wheel drive vehicles, with children and women inside, to complete the picture that they are a family, and invite them to come from their countries for condolences, or to attend They need money to fill the car, bring food for their children, and promise to return the money.
Others asserted that some beggars pretend to be ill, holding medical prescriptions, x-rays, and analyzes written in complex foreign languages.
And because it was not possible for them to check and verify the validity of the data, the decision was before them either to respond and give them the money, or to refuse and apologize, pointing out that eliminating the phenomenon of beggary requires urging people to work, through the media, schools and mosques, especially since the state includes many parties The donor, which does not hesitate to help any poor living in this generous country.
And «Emirates Today» monitored an increase in beggary activity through social media and anonymous websites, since the beginning of the month of Ramadan, to obtain the money of benefactors, under the pretext of doing good during the blessed days, through messages containing the phrases “God bless you, I am your brother - or your sister - From this country, our situation is difficult, and we have children and we need help.” And other “fabricated” begging phrases, to help orphans, treat sick people, or build mosques and schools in poor countries and others, promoted by unknown people outside the country.
The psychologist, Osama Abdel-Aty, stressed that the phenomenon of beggary poses a danger to children, and prevents them from enjoying normal childhood stages, due to the problems caused by this phenomenon for children, such as living in difficult conditions, and spending most of their time practicing beggary in the streets, instead of spending it in the exercise of their lives Natural, in addition to the negative effects that others have left over to them, and treating them with disrespect.
For his part, Lawyer Salem Saeed Al-Hayqi confirmed that beggary is a fraudulent project that touches the feelings of citizens and residents, and threatens the security and stability of society, pointing out that the law called not to deal with beggars who take advantage of circumstances and invent tricks and misleading stories to elicit sympathy and compassion among people. In order to get benefit and money.
He said that the majority of beggars consider beggary as a profession for them to earn money, although there is no actual need for that, because there are specialized charitable and humanitarian bodies, which receive alms money and distribute it to the deserving.
Al-Hayqi indicated that the UAE legislator stipulated the penalty for beggary in Article 475 of Federal Decree-Law No. 31 of 2021, promulgating the Crimes and Penalties Law, that whoever commits a crime shall be punished by imprisonment for a period not exceeding three months and a fine of no less than 5000 dirhams. Begging, through begging, with the aim of obtaining a material or in-kind benefit, in any form or means.
He added that the legislator in Federal Law No. 3 of 2016 on the rights of the child, known as the Wadima Law, prohibits exposing the child to beggary, or exploiting him economically, and the penalty shall be imprisonment for a period of no less than 10 years, whoever violates any of the provisions of items (1), 2, 5, 6) of Article (37) of this law.
He pointed out that the law also stipulates that a penalty of imprisonment for a period of no less than six months and a fine of no less than 100,000 dirhams shall be imposed on anyone who manages the crime of organized beggary, which is committed by an organized group of two or more people.
The same penalty applies to anyone who recruits people to the state to use them in the crime of organized beggary.
And he added, “The Public Prosecution may refer the accused in the crime of beggary to the competent authorities, instead of filing a criminal case, in order to work on his social care, or qualify him to work if he is a citizen of the state, and it is proven that he is compelled, or unable to earn, and has no other source of livelihood. ».
e-begging
Abu Dhabi Police warned against electronic begging through information technology and social media platforms.
She explained that the law sets the penalty for committing the crime of beggary by imprisonment for a period not exceeding three months, and a fine of no less than 5000 dirhams.
It was also considered an aggravating circumstance that the crime of beggary had been committed in the following cases: “If the beggar is of sound mind, or has an apparent means of subsistence, and if the beggar has fabricated injuries or permanent disabilities, or pretends to perform a service for others, or uses any other means of deception and deception. , with the intent of influencing others to elicit their sympathy.
As for the penalty for organized begging, the law imposed a penalty of imprisonment for a period of no less than six months, and a fine of no less than 100,000 dirhams on anyone who managed the organized begging crime, and imposed the same penalty on anyone who recruits people in accordance with the Law of Entry and Residence of Foreigners, to use them in the crime of organized beggary.
As for the penalty for those who participated in the organized beggary crime, it is imprisonment for a period not exceeding three months, and a fine of no less than 5000 dirhams, or one of these two penalties.
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