People on the border between Ukraine and Poland. File photoMOSCOW, Oct 6Unscrupulous businessmen in Germany use Ukrainian refugees as a source of profit, imposing exorbitant housing prices on them, the German magazine Der Spiegel reported. -Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel, turned into a private zone for refugees from Ukraine. However, the price for a month of stay, according to the publication's informants, exceeded one and a half thousand euros.»It's time to leave.» The British complained about the problems with the Ukrainian refugees» In one case, the landlord demanded 1285 euros for a larger former double room. At the same time, 920 euros are for rent without utility bills, to this amount is added a fee for the use of furniture — 95 euros per month, as well as utility bills — EUR 270. Moreover, the contract states that «after the period of operation of the premises, the final payment will be made taking into account the actual costs,» the authors of the article say. passed into the possession of organizations «Doctors Without Borders» and Greenpeace. According to the last will of the owner of the hotel, at least part of the hotel complex was to be used for social needs, but public organizations preferred to resell the property to a private entrepreneur Hartmut Lingott. The managing shareholder of the construction company KonzeptBau GmbH told the Bayreuth administration she is The idea was to accommodate refugees on the territory of the former hotel, however, according to journalists, Lingott «felt that he could make good money here.»
"When it all started, some refugees had to sleep on mattresses on the floor, although there was enough space in the hotel for a hundred beds. They say that at the beginning the tenant planned to accommodate up to four adults in each double room. According to the lists of residents, it is clear that sometimes two adults with four children shared one double room", the authors noted.
Those affected by the actions of the new owner of «Stein» emphasized that they were often forced to sign lease agreements that were not translated from German, and the cost of different types of accommodation varied greatly in different periods. So, one of the tenants, who lived in a bungalow on the territory of the hotel from May 2021 to June 2022, stated that the rent for a double room for refugees was assigned three times more than the price for a bungalow.
In Germany, they reached the «dangerous line» because of Ukrainian refugeesJournalists Der Spiegel emphasized that in Germany there is a whole trend for similar treatment of refugees from Ukraine. «In Hamburg for a two-room apartment in the Mundsburg Tower residential complex with an area of 65 square meters with a for a family of four, the city paid the landlord €3,600 per month, which was supposed to include maintenance and translation services.In the district of Böblingen, the landlord demanded €1,150 for a three-room apartment in a former hotel, although there was no kitchen and building work was going on in the house. that business on human misfortune brings a good profit,» the authors said. Earlier, the heads of 23 municipalities in Baden-Württemberg turned to German Interior Minister Nancy Fraser with a request for financial assistance to provide for Ukrainian refugees. According to the letter, local administrations have exhausted all possibilities to help the refugees and they are in an «extremely dangerous situation». According to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, from February 24 to August 30, more than seven million refugees from Ukraine arrived in European countries «/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/95a433cb4f5ba0f62457a1c41b90250e.jpg» />In the Czech Republic, they complained about Ukrainians doing «business in public»