Conspiracy?
On August 17, 1951 in Pont-Saint-Esprit, in the Gard, the whole village seems taken with madness, after what looks like a banal collective intoxication.
For a week, surreal scenes follow one another, with residents falling prey to delirium and hallucinations.
At the end of this week, we deplore five dead and 300 patients, including sixty interned in psychiatric hospitals.
In 2009, the American journalist Hank Albarelli assures in a book that the village would have been the victim of an experiment on the effects of LSD, carried out jointly by the American army and the CIA.
A theory that takes its place alongside ergot poisoning or mycotoxins in the catalog of hypotheses...