Coronavirus: No fence between Kreuzlingen and Constance

They are two different cities, in two different countries. But actually, German Constance and the Swiss city of Kreuzlingen almost belong together. However, they were separated during the Corona crisis. A fence created a distance between lovers, friends and acquaintances.

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Now the borders are slowly opening up again. Today, the federal government announced: Both married and unmarried couples can hug each other again from midnight. That is why the border fence between the two cities is now falling. It has become a symbol for the closed borders.

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Dismantling in the evening

Already at the media conference in the afternoon Christian Bock from Swiss Customs said that the German side is already dismantling its fence. The Swiss want to follow suit in the evening. “The dismantling will start at 7 p.m. today,” says a media release from the canton of Thurgau. At a conference call this afternoon, representatives of the German and Swiss authorities had decided to dismantle the border fence.

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However, the fact that the fence is gone does not mean that the borders are open again: shopping tourism is still prohibited, for example, and border controls are still being carried out, if only on a random basis.

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Blick TV is in Kreuzlingen and reports on the opening of the border in the evening. (brb)

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