Munich: In a bid to protect its citizens from young refugees who are going to be moved to Munich, Germany is building a 12-foot high wall — higher than the Berlin Wall.
The authorities have decided to move 160 young, unaccompanied migrants into a shelter which is less than 100 metres from a residential estate. Locals have demanded for a wall to keep the refugees away, the Daily Mail reported.
The local residents said they feared the “noise and behaviour” of the refugees and went to court to get the wall built. The judge of the Administrative Court in Munich confirmed the wall in a judgment, noted that the migrants should not use if for “ball throwing games” or other “leisure use”, according to the Mail.
The locals also argued that the value of their homes would plummet if there was nothing to separate them from the refugees who could be there for years to come, the Mail said.
The fact that it is higher than the Berlin Wall of the Cold War is not lost on locals and officials. But engineers said it had to be that high to provide an effective sound insulation.
