Veybach Street is named after the river that winds discreetly through Euskirchen.
Rather than a river, we should speak of a stream.
But, on the night of Wednesday to Thursday, in less than an hour, the latter turned into a deadly torrent leaving behind a devastated city center and at least one dead.
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Saturday morning, two days after the disaster, rue Veybach looks grotesque.
The back of an Audi rests on a sign indicating a pedestrian crossing, which itself has been bent almost horizontally by the violence of the waves.
The front of the vehicle pits on the asphalt.
Identical scenes are repeated further on, windshields destroyed, grilles infiltrated by branches.
The Saturn appliance store, the German equivalent of Darty, is plunged into darkness, the mall escalator that gives access to it, is at a standstill.
The delivery center at the back of the store is reduced to a muddy lake which we guess, by a wet mark on the wall, what was
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