Sudden reversal – family poisoned: probably drugs as a starter

Under mysterious circumstances, a family of six from Obertrum was admitted to two hospitals in the city of Salzburg on Monday evening. Even emergency doctors and a helicopter were present – ​​the “Krone” reported.

If a gas or chemical leak was initially suspected, food poisoning was likely. Leftover food was even taken to the AGES laboratory in Vienna and a microbiological examination was ordered.

Just a three year old child with no symptoms
The half-eaten pancakes with green filling at the table suggested that the perpetrator was on the plate. But now the suspicion of something completely different is becoming more concrete. According to information from “Krone”, neither gas nor food are likely to be the culprits of the acute poisoning symptoms. The whole family must have taken drugs before dinner.

An overdose of cannabis and the delayed effect probably surprised the residents of Flachgau during dinner. The pancakes that were served remained on the plates. The adults staggered outside and waited for the rescuers. As has only now become known, only the three-year-old toddler remained without poison symptoms.

Drug experiments can still have consequences
The Red Cross, the emergency doctor and the fire brigade did not know what had really happened when they raised the alarm shortly after 8 p.m. on Monday. On Tuesday everything pointed to a poisonous ‘double’ of wild garlic as the culprit of the poisoning symptoms, but the turning point came on Wednesday. Only slowly did it become clear that drugs may have been involved. The police are currently only ruling out foul play.

The family from quiet Obertrum is now back home from the hospital. It is still unclear whether all the people involved in the drug experiment – ​​the oldest is 72 years old – actually used cannabis voluntarily. However, the case could still have legal ramifications.