The mayor of Yakutsk suggested sending the homeless to labor camps

The mayor of Yakutsk, Yevgeny Grigoriev, said that the homeless are engaged in “corruption of people” and suggested that they be sent to labor camps, similar to treatment and labor preventive clinics of Soviet times. Sibir.Realii writes about this.

Grigoriev said that the homeless belong to the category of the population “that could work.” According to him, the homeless “need to be brought to justice” because “they are engaged in drunkenness, corrupting people and spoiling public places.”

“I don’t feel sorry for them,” said the mayor. And here, too, we need to work on the creation of drug sobering centers in Yakutsk and bring back labor camps. It is important to work with the communities so that people come from the Ulusov (regions of Yakutia – RS) in the summer and go home in the winter. were responsible for the people of their uluses,” the municipal publication “Echo of the Capital” quotes the mayor.

The head of the city spoke about the homeless, commenting on the closure of the so-called “pourers” – cafes where you can buy alcohol after 10 p.m., from July 1.

• In March 2021, Yevgeny Grigoriev, a native of Russia, became the head of Yakutsk and won the elections. Before being elected to the post, he worked as the first deputy of the former mayor Sardana Avksentieva.
• Trials of addicted people were sent to treatment and labor prevention centers in the USSR. There they were “isolated from society” and subjected to forced treatment. In addition, those kept in preventive detention centers were required to work, often at hard and dangerous jobs.