The owner of the Tchin Tchin Wine Bar in Bordeaux, France has been charged with involuntary homicide after 15 people fell ill and one person died due to botulism caused by contaminated sardine preserves made by the establishment.
Many of the people who fell ill from the sardine preserves were tourists who were in town for the Rugby World Cup in September 2023. The victims were mostly in their 30s and 40s, but ranged up to age 70, and hailed from the U.S., the UK, Canada, Germany, Ireland, Spain, Greece, and France.