Swedish border controls hit Øresund bridge commuters as well as refugees

While new identity checks are annoying for thousands of commuters, for refugees the move has far greater implicationsAs dark fell over the Øresund bridge on Monday evening, up to 8,000 commuters in Denmark were stuck in 45-minute delays on their route back to Sweden. Getting home, they feared, would take them twice as long as usual. This was no ordinary traffic jam on the crossing made famous by the TV crime drama The Bridge. It was the result of new identity checks brought in by Sweden a