'Border fence terrible'

- BRENNER With snowy Alpine peaks in the background Austrian construction workers working on a 400 meter long fence at the Brenner Pass, the main transport route between northern and southern Europe, which Austria is threatening to close because of the refugee crisis.

'The last few weeks have been here three demonstrations,' says Mayor Franz Kompatscher, a genial, tanned man with bald head. 'The last time the police turned water cannons, because the anarchist attackers came with sticks and fireworks bombs. I even saw girls shooting stones with slingshots. 'Italian leftists were dressed in black, masked or equipped with gas masks, and carried banners with the slogan' No borders in Europe! '.

The gate at the Brenner Pass is primarily a requirement of the ultra-right-wing Austrian FPÖ party that wants to close the border if there are too many refugees enter the country through Italy. That would end the free movement of people and goods in Europe, as is feared.
  
    
     
      
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'A week ago, at the border, preparations began for the barrier,' said Mayor Kompatscher. 'There are concrete foundations poured and then placed metal posts. '

Behind him slow driving trucks on a highway bridge at the Raststätte Rosenberger. 'Here come annually ten million cars pass and two million trucks. For industry so very important. 'According to the Bertelsmann Foundation takes a border closure both countries about one percent of their gross national product.

Kompatscher, Member of the South Tyrolean People's Party: 'This limit never had a fence. It reminds me of the Berlin Wall and the Iron Curtain. 'In 1989, Austria and Hungary were open a joint border fence clipped and put an end to the Cold War. Now both EU countries build the first back gate in Europe.
  
  
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     Redouane Abdelghani shows the wounds that he says have maintained a collision with the police.
    
   
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'A border fence is a disaster. This is a terrible symbol, 'said the village head emphatically. 'This is a knife in the heart. Italy depends on the Brenner Pass. 'But last year there were ninety thousand asylum seekers to the small Alpine region. Partly because Chancellor Faymann last week climbed unexpectedly.

For Brenner station where 250 people live, are groups of Moroccans and some black Africans from countries like Eritrea and Ghana. They beg for money, warm clothes or a lift. 'Look, the Austrian police have mistreated me. See those welts on my arm and my neck, 'said Redouane Abdel Ghani, a 18-year-old boy.

It runs along the Guardia di Finanza, men wearing green berets, bulletproof vests and dark sunglasses. 'Our mission is to combat terrorism,' said a policeman. Italian police currently controls more trains to northern Europe and fishing refugees out.

Some refugees still arrive at border station Brenner, but by traveling they should not. Moroccan boys show their anger free rein and kicking the windows of the Austrian police station. The agents do not intervene. 'It takes too much effort to arrest them. 'An hour later, a group of Ghanaians runs freely across the border.