‘How sad’.
so begins TV 2’s reporter and mellemøstkorrespondent Steffen Jensen, a lookup on the island of Langeland Library’s Facebook page.
Steffen Jensen is the craze of the municipality that the open library on the island of Langeland has chosen to curtail its hours because there have been problems with a group of young troublemakers, who have created insecurity in the area.
the Library was previously open so that you from at 18-22 could even close in, when the staff had gone home, but now it is finish with the extra four hours of free access.
‘Yes, some times marvel one really about the quality of the politicians’ decisions, and the reflections behind,’ writes Steffen Jensen in a posting on his own profile.
The well-known journalist, is unhappy that the municipality chooses to ‘punish’ law-abiding citizens, instead of cracking down on troublemakers.
‘What if the troublemakers move over to ŰP (Ørstedspavillonen, ed.), to fodboldbanerne or nursing home? We begin then also to reduce the municipality’s services to citizens?’, he asks on the library’s page.
‘What happens now, is that the resolution is awkward enough to ensure that the trouble makers will no longer be disturbed by the quiet, law-abiding citizen on the evening,’ he continues.
On the library’s website says that the municipality has chosen to close the library, because there has been ‘a part unrest and vandalism on and in the area around the library during the period when no staff is present’.
B. T. have been in contact with Jan Ole Jakobsen (V), who is the president of the municipality, Learning-, Social – and culture Committee.
Why should law abiding citizens be punished for a group ballademageres lack of good behavior?
“How I see it is not. For me to Netspor see is the reverse. We ensure that it is safe for them to go to the library.”
But In restricting the people’s ability to use the library. Why trying not to crack down on troublemakers instead?
“Beat down? How should we do it? Who should we turn on?”
If the troublemakers start to make trouble earlier in the day, will reduce these hours further?
“Here one must think that the library is staffed to at 18 o’clock, so if something happens earlier in the day, so someone will see it.”
According to Jan Ole Jakobsen, there have been various incidents where visitors have felt unsafe.
“If they (the trouble makers, ed.) have been there in the evening, so similar to the day after, that they have forgotten to send their mother over to clean up,” he says, and continues:
“in Addition there has been committed vandalism in the area around the library, and so it has created discomfort for some biblioteksgængere, when the group of young people are assembled in front of or in the vicinity of the library.”
Is it because there is a lack of places where the young people can stay for the evening?
“We have several youth clubs, they can come in, and I do not believe that a group like them, who make trouble, will stay the kinds of places anyway.”
TV 2-reporter Steffen Jensen on Facebook urged people to appeal against the decision to the politicians in the municipal council. Jan Ole Jakobsen is, however, at the time of writing not familiar with that should have received some complaints.
“But… if people will complain, then they should be welcome to at the same time to give you some ideas for solutions to the problem,” he says.
the Library’s reduced opening hours will provisionally apply until February, when the municipality will hold a meeting and discuss whether it should continue.
B. T. have tried to get a comment from Steffen Jensen, but he has not wanted to deepen its lookup.
