Dubai against begging: homeless people earn up to 73,000 euros a month

Mountains of cash, the tallest skyscraper on this planet (Burj Dubai), luxurious vehicles, thoroughbred horses and billionaires in turban: Dubai is the capital of luxurious and the superlative. This enclave of the Persian Gulf, one of many seven emirates of the United Arab Emirates, is extreme even in its begging: they’ve simply arrested a homeless man who earned 270,000 dirhams (the equal of $ 73,500) a month, as introduced by the municipal spokesman Faisal Al Badiawi.

The perfect boxing day, official sources clarify, is Friday, when Dubait mosques are stuffed with devoted to Mohammed. In a single day, the arrested obtained a median of 9,000 dirhams ($ 2,450).

In accordance to Arabianbusiness.com (from the famend ITP Publishing Group), the Metropolis Council is anxious and cops have already arrested 59 with out premium roof in thus far this 12 months. The enterprise may be very profitable: the authorities have detected that the beggar candidates arrive to the UAE legally on a enterprise vacationer go to and train till they’re hunted by the police. “The bulk have this visa for 3 months,” Al Badiawi emphasizes.

The professionalization of this prohibited occupation has grown exponentially within the arms of expertise. Already in 2015, Colonel Mohammed Rashid Al Muhairi, then Basic Director of the Division of Tourism, admitted that “beggars ship messages to mobiles and request that recipients ship them to their contacts.”

The parodies have worsened and there are even humorous movies that present how a figurative beggar has his personal POS, in order not to run out of alms amongst some sheikhs that aren’t accustomed to cash and money.

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The issue, nevertheless, is actual, because the Mexican newspaper explains. Excelsior The campaign against this downside started seven years in the past. Thus, in 2009, 1,237 beggars had been captured and in 2010, 814. The development, nevertheless, is downward since within the years 2012 and 2013 the determine of eight hundred was not exceeded.