Warminsko-Mazurskie

25th June 2010

“So he started hurling a chair about, and the customers fled in panic,”

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Business on Olsztyn’s Stary Rynek (or Old Market) is being ruined by persistent drunken beggars scaring away tourists. A record number of beer gardens have been set up this summer, to attract tourists and encourage residents to spend time in the Old Town. But a crowd of young alcoholics have decided to spend their days there, begging, then taking their earnings and spending them on alcohol in a nearby offlicence. “You can’t walk by them untroubled, without being asked for some change. I’m so sick of it I give them a wide berth,” one local commented to reporters.

They are also aggressive. In one incident this week a young man was refused money by a customer in one of the gardens, � ...

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