It was bitterly cold that November day in Bétange, including in the castle.
Sitting in the living room in front of an auxiliary electric heater, Fani and Philippe Aymer joke about it.
Here, in Moselle, it is seldom hot in this season, but that is not what will discourage them: Bétange and its owners have another fight at least as important as the establishment of modern comfort within their four walls.
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With a 2022 horizon, a motorway extension project (A31 bis) is underway in this border region with Luxembourg.
Basically, everyone, including the Aymers, agrees that something must be done to stop the hellish traffic to the border.
Almost 100,000 people cross it every day to go to work, taking the A31.
But no sooner has the subject been put on the table than the Aymers ignite.
To relieve the road congestion, they explain, map in support, three routes are being studied, two of which would pass
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