In Chur, the open drug scene awaits its consumption premises

Friday 10th January 2025 02:58 PM

Published on January 10, 2025 at 8:49 p.m.

Images of open stages from the 1990s, such as the Platzspitz or the Letten, have left a lasting impression. These places of wild consumption have not disappeared from the landscape
Chur, for example, is experiencing an expansion of the phenomenon.
The population accepted at the ballot box the creation of an injection site, but which has not yet been possible due to opposition from local residents.

A smell of sausage mixed with the scent of cotton candy spreads across the main street of Chur, where the Christmas market has taken up residence. A chime rings 11 a.m., while mulled wine and Magenbrot (gingerbreads) find buyers in a good-natured mood. A few steps further, the atmosphere changes drastically. In the Stadtgarten, around twenty drug addicts drag their slippers under a rain of dead leaves. “Fuck the Wellt”, asserts a graffiti tagged on the surrounding wall. A man silently dances the jig in front of a stele in the center of the quadrangle.

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