Luxembourg’s administrative appeals court has rejected two legal complaints that sought to overturn Luxembourg City’s begging ban.
Two individuals, one reportedly living in the Grand Duchy and the second in Germany, had filed cases against the ban before Luxembourg’s administrative tribunal, which ruled in favour of the capital’s ban in June last year on technical grounds.
Luxembourg’s Home Affairs Ministry said in a statement on Monday that the administrative appeals court upheld the administrative tribunal’s decisions in judgements handed down last Thursday. The court ruled the appeals were “inadmissible”, according to the ministry, meaning the appellants did not legitimately challenge a point of procedure.
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Luxembourg City introduced the begging ban, which restricts all forms of begging in designated streets and public spaces and aims to curb so-called aggressive begging, in December 2023 and was backed by the Home Affairs Ministry.
Lydie Polfer, the capital’s major, said in January that the law had been effective in breaking up organised begging gangs and cutting down on aggressive begging.
