'People really feel the lack of security right now' – a day at a fencing trade fair
The market in ‘perimeter protection’ has boomed, as individuals look to protect their properties and governments attempt to shore up entire borders
Workers build new security fences topped with barbed wire to stop people from accessing the Eurotunnel terminal in Coquelles, near Calais. Photograph: Pascal Rossignol/Reuters
Workers build new security fences topped with barbed wire to stop people from accessing the Eurotunnel terminal in Coquelles, near Calais. Photograph: Pascal Rossignol/Reuters
*People try to cross into Spain’s north African enclave of Melilla from Morocco in October 2014. Photograph: Reuters
*Hungarian prisoners form part of a work detail to finish the razor wire border fence with Serbia. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/ Getty Images
*Hungarian prisoners form part of a work detail to finish the razor wire border fence with Serbia. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/ Getty Images
Anyone who steps unwanted over the threshold of a property with a Peperosso atomiser installed can expect an immediate burning sensation as chilli paprika is sprayed in their face. The instruction booklet promises “tears and coughing” and “a lot of slime”.