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Polls indicate that anti-immigration party Alternative fuer Deutschland is set to win double digits in Sunday's three state elections (Photo: Peter Teffer)

Local elections to test Merkel on refugees

Two men in an excavator and a tractor were digging on Tuesday (8 March) at a former tennis club in the south-western German city Offenburg.

“Waterworks,” one of them said. The site - the size of six tennis courts - is being prepared to house 500 refugees in container-buildings.

A snow-covered umpire chair and some signs are the only reminders of the site's previous function.

A stone's throw away - or a decent tennis serve - Willy Verderio was doing his own construction. The ...

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Polls indicate that anti-immigration party Alternative fuer Deutschland is set to win double digits in Sunday's three state elections (Photo: Peter Teffer)

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