An eyesore:

The city of Dornbirn’s boarded-up benches

A small crossbeam that has only one goal: To prevent homeless people from sleeping on the bench(Bild: Privat)

The city of Dornbirn has fitted benches at the train station with crossbeams so that homeless people can no longer sleep on them. The writer Robert Schneider is stunned.

The richest city in the country has sent out a signal. In an unprecedentedly cynical way, it wants to show those people who have fallen off the socially acceptable grid what it thinks of them: Get out of our beautiful city! Go somewhere else! We don't want you here! Thoughts of Luke's Christmas message come to mind.