Les Années 60: Les Plages Dévastées par le Camping Sauvage, Pollution, Déchets, Hygiène...

September 2, 1966: Magazine: Five Columns on the Front Page: "Wild Camping" (French Radio and Television Office). Vacationers in the 1960s, impromptu camping on undeveloped and unregulated beaches. Report on wild camping on the beaches of Sète. Interview with campers who prefer to be on a polluted beach and pay only two francs per day per person. Interview with a former camper who laments the lack of spaces in campsites. Interview with Pierre Arraut (Mayor of Sète), who deplores the pollution on his beaches but declares he can do nothing about it: "For five years, he has been requesting that the beach be granted to the city so that it can finally be developed into a proper campsite." CAF93016154