Amiens town hall will issue an order to prohibit “on an experimental basis” aggressive begging in the pedestrian city center. Mayor Brigitte Fouré says she was responding to a request from traders.
This decree will be limited in space and time, applied from May to August from Tuesday morning to Saturday evening, when businesses are open. Anti-begging orders have already been issued by several French cities in recent years, such as in La Rochelle last June, but have often been overturned by the courts.