Residents of the Swiss village Oberwil-Lieli in the canton of Aargau have refused to accept ten refugees who were supposed to get temporary housing in the area and are even ready to pay 262,000 euros as compensation.
"We think that the local assistance [in the countries where refugees come from] would be much more effective. What's important is that in this case no one would have to pay smugglers to get into a dangerous boat, and no one would have any problem with returning home, when peace is restored. And every franc invested at the local level would have a much greater value. So it is a kind of a protest against the totally inappropriate migration policy of the Swiss government," the mayor of the village told Sputnik.
