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More than 300 asylum seekers will move into the new shelter in the Grunau district of Leipzig next month, following a renovation project that cost £5.2million (€6million).



But locals in an adjacent block of flats are fuming with the development and have built the fence in an effort to keep the migrants out.

The residents of Weissdornstrasse decided to build the £17,000 (€20,000) barrier at their annual meeting last summer.



But now the fence is up, some German citizens living in the building have complained they feel trapped in a “ghetto”.



One resident said: “We feel like we are in the ghetto.”

GETTY The fence was erected to keep out refugees moving into a new shelter nearby.

Another said the elderly struggle to reach their flats because they must now take a “detour of 300 metres”.



The resident continued: “This is an impertinence, especially for the elderly people.”



Leipzig is required to take 13 per cent of all refugees seeking asylum in the federal German state of Saxony.

GETTY Leipzig must take 13 per cent of all refugees in the federal state of Saxony.

Saxony is required to take 5.1 per cent of all refugees arriving in Germany.



Despite a dramatic decrease in the amount of refugees given access to Germany in the last two years – 890,000 in 2015 to 305,000 in 2016 – attacks committed against refugees remain at a steadier level.



Germany’s Interior Ministry recorded 970 attacks in 2016 against refugee shelters – just six per cent lower than the number of attacks in 2015.

'MERKEL MUST GO': Brussels protest against German Chancellor Tue, February 14, 2017 Angry campaigners held placards with slogans reading 'Merkel not welcomed' and 'Merkel must go' following a spate of terror attacks against Germany. Play slideshow EPA 1 of 11 Protest on the sidelines of Angela Merkel's official visit in Brussels