Wall reinforced after escape
NZPA-Reuter West Berlin East German border guards have laid a carpet of long steel spikes along a section of the Berlin Wall where two men made a dramatic escape last Sunday, the West Berlin police have said. • Two rows of spiked matting had been placed below the barred windows of a newspaper publishing house from which the two men, aged 26 and 27, broke out before scaling the wall to reach West Berlin, they said. The gap between the building, alongside the Check-
point Charlie border crossing, and the wall is only 10 metres. The new rows of matting, each Im wide and 75m long, replaced a row of smaller spikes which failed to prevent the escape. The police said the two men, who both worked in the publishing house, let themselves be locked in the building on Friday On Sunday morning they sawed through the bars on a ground-floor window and used ropes and ladders to scale the wall, unseen by guards in a nearby watchtower. .
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Press, 21 February 1980, Page 7
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