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Around forty people demanded an immediate end to the begging ban in Luxembourg City on Friday.
Members of the campaign against the begging ban, from Amnesty International to opposition party members, walked through Luxembourg City with a megaphone to make it clear that the ban should be reversed.
One of the demonstrators was Marie-Marthe Müller, who a few weeks ago sat down on Grand-Rue to demonstrate solidarity with the beggars.
"I'm here to say that we have an ever-increasing poverty problem in Luxembourg. This must be tackled, but not in such a way that we target the poorest of the poor".
Nora Schneider from the campaign cites the huge difference in wealth as the primary reason for crime. She helped organise the protest action to show that people are not satisfied with the current political direction.
"I have absolutely no trust in and no hope for this government. I know for a fact that no matter how big this protest is, the government won't care. The only thing I want to do is build resistance and continue to show the government that we are not okay with this."
In addition to Luc Frieden and Léon Gloden, who was called a liar throughout various speeches on Place Clairefontaine, there were also calls for Lydie Polfer to resign.
For Chris Hansen (spokesperson for the Young Greens), DP deputy Simone Beissel and CSV deputy Marc Lies also have no place in politics: "Simply on the basis of their comments, which are racist, misanthropic, inflammatory and anti-Roma - it cannot be that this becomes the norm in politics, because then it might mean that this could also become the norm in society."
