Oldsailor65 Loc: Iowa

Man Was Expecting to House a Ukrainian Family, But Got Refugees That Left Him with Nearly $40,000 in Damages Instead

A Belgian family wanted to offer their house to a refugee family displaced by the war in Ukraine, but instead has lived through a nightmare.

According to the Belgium news website Ninofmedia Sven De Strijcker and Evy De Koninck of Ninove began with the best of intentions.

“We had offered a place for a woman with two children. We were assigned a family in June 2022. When we went to pick them up at the OCMW in Ninove, it turned out to be a pregnant woman, her husband and three children. That was the first problem, but not insurmountable,” De Strijcker said, using the acronym for Belgium’s Public Center for Social Welfare.

According to the website 7sur7, the family was not among the refugees from cosmopolitan urban centers such as Kyiv.

“We quickly noticed that this was no ordinary Ukrainian family. Two weeks later, the CPAS told us that they were Roma gypsies,” De Strijcker said.

The result was that the refugee family did not know how to use modern conveniences, such as a washing machine, dryer, or oven. The mother of the children was washing clothes in the tub.

Within a few weeks, the house — in which the couple was no longer living — had been transformed.

“Mildew appeared all over the windows, the walls were covered with inscriptions, the wood was torn from the frame of the bed, the doors and cabinets were damaged,” De Strijcker said.

“But that’s not all: all the chairs in the kitchen were broken, the molding was torn off the stairs, there were holes in the floor, our children’s toys were broken, even their piggy bank was opened,” he continued.

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But it got worse, he said, as Belgium’s Public Center for Social Assistance, known by the acronym of CPAS, did nothing to help as their problems spiraled.

“We should have drawn up a rental contract, but the CPAS never discussed it with us. They only said that we would receive compensation. We contacted the CPAS several times, but they were reluctant to see us. They simply told us: ‘Either we take the refugees, or they stay with you and you stop asking us,'” he said, adding that they gave the family a second chance.

By September of last year, they had reached their end, according to Ninofmedia.

“There was too much damage, the man refused three times to accept job offers for various reasons,” De Strijcker said, noting that the man preferred off-the-books black market work.

“We found out another family was staying here on the sly, we don’t know how long,” he said, adding that the alleged sister had simply arrived from Ukraine and not through proper channels.

De Strijcker told 7sur7 that at one point, the house had 11 people living in it.

“This could have caused big problems in the event of a fire, for example, as we had been persuaded to let them check in at our home address,” he said.

The refugees “also constantly asked us for money,” he said. “Once it was supposedly for their youngest daughter’s birthday present, but it turned out to be for a car, although we knew the man didn’t have a driver’s license.”

Eventually, the refugees left at the end of November. “It was not until the end of December that they came to collect all their belongings. It was a real mess,” he said.

The damage totaled 36,000 euros, which amounts to more than $39,000.

“The CPAS then told us that we would not receive any compensation. We were advised to sue the family in question through the Peace Court. We are going to do it, but the family lives on an integration income. How are they going to pay for this? We understand that 36,000 euros is a lot of money, but the CPAS could have covered part of the damage, which has been proven,” he said.

https://www.westernjournal.com/man-expecting-house-ukrainian-family-got-refugees-left-nearly-40000-damages-instead/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=conservative-brief-WJ&ff_campaign=dailypm&ff_content=western-journal

This is a very sad story for the property owner.

Canuckus Deploracus Loc: North of the wall

He was an idiot...
There are stories like this all over Europe ..
I think the only thing that the Ukrainian and Russian people still agree on is hating gypsies...

liberalhunter Loc: Your mom's house

Dated a gypsy girl from Bosnia for a bit... in that time I learned a few things by age 16 gypsy women can and will out drink any man... relentless with the scorpion and spider tattoos from top to bottom...... most important is how many times I was told I would end up in a trunk of some car by a smelly fella covered in hair and Drakar Noir...... alot of bark in those gypsies.
Most corrupted people I have ever known.

Canuckus Deploracus Loc: North of the wall

I've never met one...
But hatred of them is pretty much universal amongst my European friends.. Even the super left liberals..

WEBCO

Consider yourself lucky

JuristBooks Loc: North Carolina

Side note: Adolph despised Gypsies more than any other group.
And yes, the do-gooder Belgians should have walked in with shotguns and cleaned house.
No brains. Gutless wonders.

Wonttakeitanymore

Gypsies are filthy! We had one of theirs in the hospital ! They peed on the couches even though the bathroom was 20 feet from them, stole silverware from cafeteria , gathered by groups and lit candles in room!

Wonttakeitanymore

Agree!

Radiance3

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No matter how compassionate you may be, it is wrong to invite strangers of refugees into your own home to stay. During the Biblical age, that may be allowed. As time went by different kinds of people emerged so you could not be safe what kind of people you are trying to help.

The best way is find them a government refugee shelter where they can seek refuge. Donate to that refugee center to help them their provisions.

Never, never allow a stranger stay in your home please!

Oldsailor65 Loc: Iowa

Never, never allow a stranger stay in your home please!
Tell that to Biden....that's exactly what he is doin

Radiance3

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Biden's invites of tens of millions of illegal invaders. made of drug dealers, drug addicts, convicts, terrorists, handouts, and those pregnant women who deliver their eggs here so that their babies born here could make them citizens and become handout dependents of Biden. They could even become presidents when they grow up like Kamala "h".

Oldsailor65 Loc: Iowa

Crystalman

NO GOOD DEED GOES UNPUNISHED!!!