Swiss city offers beggars one-way tickets anywhere in Europe
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- 04 May, 2021
- 13:55
The city of Basel is offering beggars travel vouchers to any destination in Europe in exchange for agreeing not to return.
Report informs, citing Le News, that the city’s immigration service is offering rail vouchers and CHF 20 to any beggar requesting it, according to 20 Minutes.
To get the voucher beggars must sign a written contract promising not to return to Switzerland for a certain period of time. If they are caught returning they risk being deported.
So far a total of 31 people have taken up the offer. 14 from Romania, 7 from Belgium, 7 from Germany, 2 from Italy and 1 from France.
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