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Erecting barbed wires or high walls to stop the refugee flow will
not solve anything. They are people fleeing violence and war and they
risk everything, even death, to achieve their goals. Such measures will
make the already very difficult life of the refugees unbearable, but will

not turn them away, worse, it will cause mass deaths under harsh winter
conditions. Such a prospect, which is disturbing even only as a possi-
bility, would deeply wound the hearts and conscience and will shame
Europe forever.

They are poor and needy people who had to leave everything
behind, their homes, properties, and beloved ones. They are horrified,
and don't know what to do or where to go. Most of them don't have
anything other than what they are wearing, and what they are carrying

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