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Alevi event center: residents have had enough

The event center in Schererstrasse is causing a stir.

(Bild: Bartel Gerhard/Gerhard Bartel)

Various celebrations at an event center in Schererstraße in Vienna-Floridsdorf often get out of hand. Noise, garbage and riots are the consequences. The neighbors have had enough and police interventions are on the agenda.

The Alevi religious community is one of the moderate groups in Islam. However, the regular festival organizers on the Alevi grounds in Floridsdorf are far from "moderate". "We don't even notice the believers at the Alevi cultural center in Schererstrasse. But since an event center for birthday, christening or wedding celebrations has been set up there, the peace and quiet is over," say affected residents from the adjacent municipal buildings and the garden settlement opposite.