Coronavirus divides lovers, friends at Swiss-German border fences

German Maja Bulic and her Swiss friend Jean-Pierre Walter talk through 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 April 5, 2020. Reuters/Arnd Wiegmann

“This is our only chance to stand across from each other, face-to-face,” said Jean-Pierre Walter, a Swiss who drove an hour from Zurich to see his German partner, Maja Bulic. “We can at least speak to each other. That’s something.” This is a coronavirus no-man’s land. It traces the route of a barbed wire-topped barrier that split Switzerland and Germany during World War Two and that was removed long ago.

Currently, those Swiss and Germans with cross-border jobs can go back and forth. For nearly everybody else, it’s forbidden.This week, officials added a second, since people were passing beers, playing cards and kissing through the chain links - hardly the required two-metre separation.Swiss border police, reinforced by the Swiss Army, patrol the Swiss side. An occasional German federal police squad car makes the rounds just opposite.

DebraMMason1 Oh for gods sake

oh human race: how did we get to this point?

walls are the love hate thing on earth great wall berlin wall unfinished thin fence wall in us^mexico wall on terror etc.

I guess the German missed their wall? 🤨😮😬

The wall work.

I guess Europeans really don't care or don't understand the meaning of social distancing. Fence between borders, but a bunch of people strolling around together can't be a good thing now, can it?

Those Germans sure love eastern walls

Looking like Conan and ricky gervais had a baby

A new 'wall', not only in Europe but in the whole world...

Shame！ No human rights！ No freedom！ No respect at all！Idiot government！

Berlin Wall 2: Electric Boogaloo TurningPointUK COVID19 Switzerland Germany JustGermanThings

Loss of freedom

Netherlands and Belgium. Happy ending.

This is an interesting story.

Ahhhhh sad... NO press of lips NO touch of hands

Cu cu vip

Someone tell this guy to pull up his pants...

Theres a gap between the fences he could use to 'poke' through.

She should leave him for wearing those awful sneakers

They apply TwoMeterDistance but no masks!!!!

So NOW they're concentrating on fences again?

can report on 2 millenials hanging out at a fence, but can't film an overrun test center. Can't photograph a purported warzone. Can't find a packed hospital tell us about. Do some journalism or expect FilmYourHospital to take over Twitter. Do your fucking jobs.

I dont see em masks..

Ya dude, you're gonna have to jerk it yourself for a few weeks Get over it.

who wants to be my lover from Swiss?

Sir ... maybe don’t touch the fence

Italexit... Germexit...

10:55 PM · 5 апр. 2020 г.·True Anthem

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