Nails driven into the hands and feet: the enigma of the crucified mayor in La Manche

“It’s an absolutely macabre staging of a crucifixion,” explains the public prosecutor of Coutances, Mickaël Giraudet. Tuesday, November 8, Bernard Denis, the mayor-delegate of the small town of Saint-Côme-du-Mont, in the heart of the Normandy bocage and along the landing beaches, was found near the hangar of the festival committee, his eyes and the mouth bandaged with tape, injured in the head and especially nails driven into each of the hands and heels.