German Town Builds Huge Stone Wall to Separate Locals from Refugees




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The nearly completed wall now stands taller than the Berlin Wall of the Cold War, and while locals are fully aware of this, most of them say that they don’t care how it looks, as long as it keeps the refugees away. Besides, engineers claim that it had to be this high to act an effective sound barrier, as well.

Not everyone is pleased with the new infrastructure, though. Deputy District Chairman Guido Bucholtz, said that he was “frightened” when he first saw this “monster of a wall” and argued that it could have been smaller. He also told the Merkur newspaper that he considered it “absolute madness”.

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“We don’t live directly across but in my opinion the wall is awful. There were other possibilities. It could have been built from overgrown wooden walls and so on, but not a big stone wall,” said Edgar Schultz, a resident of Neuperlach Sud.

However, the strong support for the wall is not very surprising in Bavaria, where a poll has shown that four out of five people have a negative attitude towards Muslims, and where local politicians have repeatedly expressed their discontent with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s open-door policy.

The large stone wall has been described as a compromise between between the local authorities and the residents, many of whom opposed the idea of accepting refugees.

So while Trump’s idea of building a large border wall to keep Mexicans out may not actually be feasible in real life, it seems to have inspired communities to use the same principle on a smaller scale.