Lovers kept apart by coronavirus reunited as border fence comes down

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He happens to live in Switzerland. She happens to live in Germany. Before the coronavirus, that didn't mean much for Lukas and Leonie, a ...

Members of the Swiss Civil Protection Service prepare to remove parts of two fences set up by Swiss and German authorities on the German-Swiss border as a protection measure due to the spread of the coronavirus disease in Kreuzlingen, Switzerland May 15, 2020. REUTERS/Arnd WiegmannShare this contentKREUZLINGEN, Switzerland: He happens to live in Switzerland. She happens to live in Germany. Before the coronavirus, that didn't mean much for Lukas and Leonie, a cross-border couple.

She's"a bit annoyed, actually very annoyed. Now she's laughing across the border at me - her brother’s just given her a beer, I think that helped", he said. Someone stuck a wry sign on the fence with a quote spoken by the Communist leader of East Germany just before the Berlin Wall went up in 1961:"No one intends to build a wall."

 

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