Manon Bokuchava, Kvemo Kartli
During the pre-election campaign the government has to give various promises to the population – roofing the houses, repairing lifts, implementation of new social projects, and etc. Request of 12-year-old Nini from Rustavi is not on the list of standard requests.
“There is a restaurant close to our house and it works 24 hours a day. They have intensifiers even in the yard and it is impossible to sleep at night. When parties finish, drunken people go out in the street, they start quarreling and scolding…“ Nini lives close to metallurgical factory in Rustavi. There are three restaurants in the area. It is difficult to clarify which of them bothers neighbors at night.
“In our city restaurants are not restricted to work 24 hours a day. The continue working as long as client stays in the restaurant, even before 5:00 am. Can you imagine what situation we are in, when a client wants to dance at 4:00 am? Every holiday and wedding party causes problems for us because almost everybody wants to celebrate them in the restaurants near our house. The situation gets worse in summer when public schools have farewell parties. We do not sleep at night like the graduates. Before the election the city authority got active and we request them to pay attention to us too,” said retired man Zaal Sikharulildze.
Residents of the micro-districts have the same problem in Rustavi. Eka Loria, living in the micro-district 12th,, said she was going to move to another place because of the noise coming from restaurants. “They worked until 3-4:00 am next to residential houses without preserving the required limit of distance; the owners of the restaurants do not accept our reprimands either. We complain only about time; we are not against restaurants work here, but they should allow us to sleep at night.”
The humanrights.ge asked local residents why they did not petition to the city authority for help and Loria answered: “Whom should we petition to? To the city mayor who himself visits the restaurants at nights?!”
The press-center of the mayor replied to us that they do not have information about this problem because citizens have not applied to them for help. If somebody files a complaint, they will react on the problem.
We tried to find out how impartial the problem about restaurants is. We visited almost every big restaurant in Rustavi; most of them are located next to or on the ground floor of the residential buildings. We, as ordinary clients, asked the administration until what time we could hire the restaurant. Almost every restaurant, except four ones, replied to us that waiters work before 12:00 am but singers can stay till the morning; the hall is open till the morning as well.”
Reportedly, depriving the right to sleep is a form of torture. Fascists used this method during the World War II when they wanted to influence hostages psychologically
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