He blames his assault on two men. The deputy mayor of Saint-Côme-du-Mont (Manche), found injured in the face, his hands and feet nailed on Wednesday, named two men responsible for his attack because of his support for the President of the Republic, a-t -we learned on Friday from a judicial source.
An investigation for aggravated violence entrusted to the Saint-Lô research brigade
In a press release, the public prosecutor of Coutances Michaël Giraudet indicates that the elected official “returns to the recognition of the facts of denunciation of an imaginary crime, linking the aggression of November 9 with that of May 18, 2022”.
Heard by the investigators Thursday evening, Bernard Denis “attributes his aggression to two men reproaching him, again, for the support given to the President of the Republic”, specifies Michaël Giraudet.
“After hitting him in the face and bringing him to the ground, face down, they allegedly drove the nails into his hands and the back of his ankle using a pneumatic nail gun,” he added. prosecutor.
The prosecutor recalls that in this case, the investigation for aggravated violence, entrusted to the Saint-Lô research brigade with the support of the criminal investigation cell of the national gendarmerie “is actively continuing”.
Transported to the hospital center of St Lô, the delegate mayor was operated on Wednesday and Thursday to extract the nails planted in his heels and his hands.
“His physical state of health is not alarming. He was the subject of medico-legal examinations which concluded that he was totally incapacitated for 21 days”, specifies the magistrate.
The mayor of Saint-Côme-du-Mont is prosecuted for an imaginary crime
In another file, the investigation into two shootings at the mayor’s van in May 2022 had “determined that Bernard Denis had lied”. He admitted “having shot himself in his van and having invented this attack”, indicated the prosecutor on Wednesday.
Prosecuted for “denunciation of an imaginary crime”, he must appear on November 23.
The mayor of this delegated municipality of Carentan-les-Marais had already declared himself the victim of attacks on several occasions in recent months.
Two procedures, for the fire of his garage and his vehicle as well as death threats, “were the subject of a classification without follow-up for lack of identification of a potential author”, according to the prosecutor.