Grand Est: exasperated border workers

Strasbourg

" I have become a danger to the Germans who live on the other side of the bridge! "Quips Francis Joerger, mayor of Scheibenhard, in the very north of Alsace. On March 16, after the Grand Est was classified as a “risk zone” by the Robert-Koch Institute, the elected official was warned by a German journalist that the border had been locked with a barrier and chains. " What border? In 1992, we organized a big party on the bridge to mark his disappearance. We are one village ! ”He insists.

This was true until 1815. Then the vicissitudes of history led to the division between Scheibenhard, in France, and Scheibenhardt, in Germany. Thus, approximately 1,500 inhabitants are divided equally between the two villages, separated by the Lauter. For almost thirty years, German families have lived on the French side and, on the German side, the baker is from Alsace.

For more than six weeks, no question of going to see relatives or friends. " I was checked by

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