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Symbolic Funeral for Migrants in Germany

With their action "The Arrival," the German artist collective Center for Political Beauty (Zentrum für politische Schönheit) will transfer the bodies of dead refugees from the borders of the European Union to Germany....

by Adriana Kessler
Photo: Zentrum für politische Schönheit

With their action "The Arrival," the German artist collective Center for Political Beauty (Zentrum für politische Schönheit) will transfer the bodies of dead refugees from the borders of the European Union to Germany. This is done in accordance with the relatives of the deceased. The group wants to bring attention to the mass drownings at the shores of Europe. The activists organized the first funeral in Berlin and said that the people buried where a woman from Syria along with her child, two years of age, who died trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea. The group has announced further actions.

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