The baguette, on the French side, the pack of cigarettes, on the German side, and a little innocence on both sides: this is what the border residents lost between Sarre and Moselle, after three months of forced confinement. Since midnight Sunday evening, when the two borders reopened, these two favorite foods have become available. As for Franco-German friendship, it will take time to rebuild it.
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René Westahl, retired in anger, first plagues against the politicians who deprived him for so long of his little gray at a bargain price. " Here, I buy 15.80 euros for 115 grams against 13.50 euros for 45 grams in France ", details this son of a French prisoner of war, whom family fate gave birth to in Spicheren, a small village in Moselle, from where he never left, and where he took his ten-year habits. That notably to get supplies in Germany, at its tobacco-Lotto office, located in Bremen d'Or, in the suburbs of Saarbrücken.
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