More than Pepinster, Verviers groans in dejection, as if the flood had dealt a fatal blow to the old industrial city. Yet, as dandelions bloom in cracks in the asphalt, life returns to the gray streets. “Six weeks ago we were the first cafe on the Place du Martyr. Now there are six and the seventh opens next week.”
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Verviers, where speculators buy up flooded houses until prices rise again: “They are going to make money on the backs of the victims. Painful”
