On a border, the tobacco shop is often a hotspot.
That of Wintersdorf, on the left bank of the Rhine, is no exception to the rule.
This is where the main news of the day was exchanged on Friday: the decision of the German government to classify the whole of French territory as a “risk zone”.
With the consequence of reinstating, as in spring 2020, health and police checks and further poisoning the lives of tens of millions of cross-border workers.
“Psychologically, it's very hard, because now I'm scared.
This fear risks being transmitted from both sides and spoiling the relations we have with the French, ”
explains Veronika, who speaks two meters away from her interlocutor.
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Thomas Reitz, a Frenchman, has his arms full of packs of cigarettes and is afraid that his daily commute - one and a half hours - will grow longer because of new administrative and police hassles.
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