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At the bridge linking the Polish town of Zgorzelec to its German sister city of ��ö�������ٳ�, wires erected for electrifying the railway line abruptly stop where Germany begins.

Born in ��ö�������ٳ�, a town of 55,000 that hugs the Polish border, Kretschmer served in the federal parliament for 15 years before running for the state premiership in 2017.

Police in Gorlitz and the German interior ministry declined to comment.

Hussein’s planned onward trip to northern France and then Britain was interrupted after he sent the message when German police intercepted him in the east German border town of Gorlitz, the biology graduate told Reuters.

In “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” we were in ��ö�������ٳ�, Germany, a dollhouse candy box of a town near the border of Poland, and we were all together exclusively in this wonderful little hotel.