In Saint-Come-du-Mont
Lost in the middle of the Carentan marshes, which separate the Cotentin peninsula from the rest of the Manche department, Saint-Côme-du-Mont is a small village of barely 500 souls.
Admittedly, the only café-food to have a drink with friends still maintains, chugging along, a breath of village life.
But for the rest, you have to take the car…
This Monday morning, a drizzle, usual for the country, caresses the square of Saint-Damien, the church of this village mainly crossed by cars, and sometimes a few tractors.
The thermometer reads only 14 degrees.
However, for the past few days, behind the shutters of the small stone houses, tempers have been heating up.
Last Wednesday, the mayor's Citroën Jumpy was indeed the target of several rifle shots.
And the impacts of two
“sheaves of pellets”
, with several dozen traces of buckshot, were found.
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It was around 11:30 a.m. that day.
“I was parked near a ditch, at the entrance to the…
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