German Chancellor Angela Merkel met with
Turkish president Reb erdogan to talk
about a potential deal between the EU
and turkey to slow the flow of migrants
into Europe but in Munich some locals
have come up with their own solution to
the migrant issue and it isn't
particularly
welcoming since
2015 15,000 refugees have moved in or
around Germany's thirdd largest city
Munich here in the city suburb of nooid
there's been a heated dispute over the
presence of this a 300t Long 13t Tall
Stone partition separating locals from
what will soon be a refugee housing
center that will take in 160
unaccompanied miners that have fled to
Germany it's more than a foot taller
than the Berlin Wall Costas matacus a
Greek immigrant who's lived in Munich
for 40 years lives only 100 yards from
the wall he like the majority of locals
say that the barrier is merely there to
Shield them from the anticipated noise
of all the refugees playing sports
outside when they ultimately
arrive if there was a nursery there do
you think they'd also ask for a 13t wall
to be built I have not to to decide how
big the wall must
be the the evil Germans or crowds
yeah but in this quiet neighborhood just
nearby there's already an outdoor sports
facility without any exterior noise
barriers which is why Guido buholtz who
sits on the local Council committee that
originally approved the refugee Center
isn't buying the noise argument 300 M
away there's a very big sport area it's
not the noise they they said I we don't
want the refugees okay now we have to
live now with this building and we don't
want them but we want the wall local
residents took the council to court
blocking the construction and demanding
a sound barrier it was then that the
council agreed to build the wall
symbolically it's a it's a monster
against uh
refugees he was so angered by what
happened he made a film about it and
posted it online when I took the film in
the internet I got many many uh mails uh
you why you do things for
refugees you know that it's German law
the allall and why you are against it
Stefan Reich is one of six residents who
brought legal action against the local
authorities you see the wall through the
trees and behind the wall there will be
the soccer field and behind the soccer
field you can see the refugee
home you have some graffiti drawn on
your house can you tell me what that
said Resa an Afghan Refugee who fled
from Iran lived in housing around 20
minutes south of the wall you've been in
Germany for a year have you seen a
change in the attitudes of local Germans
towards
refugees the young refugees are due to
arrive in noad in April they'll be
greeted by the wall which residents say
is here to stay
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