Lined with grocery stores and tobacconists, the Frankfurt Bridge which spans the Oder and connects its Polish twin town of Slubice in one stroke lights up in blue and green after dark.
Funded by the European Union, this pompous light show was inaugurated on November 2.
While seven hundred kilometers further east, refugees try to force barbed wire to reach the EU, the shock wave reverberates in the German city of 57,000 inhabitants.
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"In Germany, immigration, this subject which always arouses the embarrassment"
"
Let's close the paradise of German asylum
," chanted last weekend, around fifty AfD activists.
Members of the far-right party, very influential in the former GDR, tried to reach Slubice on foot.
"
We will not give up a centimeter of our beautiful land,"
said local deputy Hannes Gnauck.
Opposite, 300 demonstrators from the Without Borders movement were waiting for them, determined not to "
leave the bridge to the fascists"
.
A ritualized duel.
“
Welcome to the refugees,
” we read in green paint on the banks of the Oder.
On the bridge,
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