Includes 1 quintessentially French detail:
municipal authorities eager to hush up the story tried to prevent a horse's autopsy by having the horse cremated; but the crematorium workers were on strike, allowing time for a private autopsy to happen.
www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...
The long read: After a series of deaths on the beaches of Brittany, one bereaved family set out to prove the foul-smelling bloom was to blame
