She stands on tiptoe and plays around with his jacket. She looks into the eyes of the man drinking his coffee at a table outside a bakery.
But he remains totally impervious to her attention. No resistance, no compassion, no interest. He looks straight through her. After five minutes Laila, gives up and joins the other girls who have been standing outside the "LSD" sex shop on the corner of the street for the last few hours: the blonde woman with a limp; the little brunette with no teeth; the older woman with the support tights and slippers under her woollen skirt.
The latter is the boss of the Bulgarian girls, they say. It's rumored that she sometimes even sends year-old girls out to work the street. Residents have long since become used to it. They've passed the whores on their way to work and gotten to know their faces. But in the last few months there have been more and more girls, mainly from Eastern Europe, and far too many for the district's few streets. The previous German government of center-left Social Democrats and Greens effectively legalized prostitution in , which made it easier for brothel owners to open new establishments.
It also made it harder for the police to investigate the scene and to prosecute pimps. Local Residents Sign Petition The application for a permit to run a brothel in the rooms above the "LSD" sex shop has already been filed. That's too much for local residents, some 20 percent of whom have already signed a petition against the new brothel, according to local tabloid BZ.
They should build the brothel somewhere else, says a local fruit trader. One woman who lives in the area said: "If they open the brothel here, the last remaining families will move away.
