Switzerland: Nuclear shelters reclaimed as refugee facility
April 07, 2009
Nyon, Switzerland (AFP) -- The heavy metal doors of the old nuclear bunker swing open. Inside it is clean and spacious, but the atmosphere is claustrophobic and sounds echo and bounce off the walls.
The shelter -- tucked away in a supermarket car park at Nyon near Geneva -- became home to around 100 of Switzerland's growing contingent of asylum seekers after the country last year ran out of space to house them.
The shortage followed tough policies enacted under the influence of a right-wing anti-immigrant party in recent years that saw facilities to house asylum seekers drastically cut back.
Agence France Presse
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