Merguez sausages contained wire: young man with perforated stomach in excruciating pain after barbecue

Le lot de merguez suspect était en vente depuis le 8 août. Envato Elements

The victim had to be hospitalized urgently. The supermarket where he had bought the product withdrew the batch from sale as a precaution. The manufacturer says that it is impossible that wire could have slipped into its merguez sausages.

It is a chilling story reported by Le Figaro. That of a young man who lived through hell after eating merguez sausages. According to his story, the young man was seized by excruciating pain in his esophagus and stomach a few hours after having a barbecue with a friend in Essonne.

The night passes, the pain remains. No matter, direction Deauville. Except that on the way, the patient's state of health worsens to the point that a trip to the emergency room is necessary. Even the doctors are surprised after carrying out a battery of tests: the young man has his stomach perforated by a long metal wire surrounded by remains of meat… Two days of hospitalization.

Complaint for unintentional injuries

For the victim, there is no doubt: the wire, the ingestion of which could have had dramatic consequences, was in one of the merguez sausages he had eaten the day before. He therefore decides to file a complaint for “unintentional injuries with incapacity of more than three months by manifestly deliberate violation of a safety or prudence obligation”.

The supermarket in which he had purchased the product withdrew the batch from sale as a precaution, explain our colleagues. Who also contacted the company that had concocted the merguez. For them, given the manufacturing process, it is impossible that there was a piece of metal in it. The investigation will tell.

The batch of suspect merguez had been on sale since August 8.