A pedestrian looks through the window of a house on which a message is painted in Blandecques, northern France, on May 28, 2024. Around ten houses located in this street, flooded at the end of 2023 and beginning of 2024, were bought by the state and are attended to be destroyed to make way for a water retention basin in order to try to avoid rising water levels in the town and during heavy rains. (Photo by Denis CHARLET / AFP)