It is in a weak voice that Terry Dupin speaks from the box, hit in the larynx while the GIGN tried to neutralize him on May 31, 2021. The one who is now called the “frenzied Dordogne” is judged until to Thursday before the criminal court of Périgueux for “aggravated willful violence”. The 31-year-old man assaulted his ex-girlfriend and her boyfriend (for whom four-day ITTs were pronounced), on May 29 and 30, 2021 in Le Lardin-Saint-Lazare, in the Dordogne.
Taken aback by the discovery of a rival while searching his ex-girlfriend’s phone, when he thinks that life together is looming again, he will arrive at her house in military uniform and armed, terrorizing her family before “playing” with the police. Detained in Gradignan prison since June 10, 2021, Terry Dupin had mobilized more than 300 gendarmes before being arrested after a thirty-six hour hunt.
“I was blinded, under the influence at that time”
And this Tuesday, facing justice, the couple looks back on this terrible night, on their relationship made of violence. Amandine and him met in March 2013 via the Internet. The couple is far from stable. They break up and get back together several times. “It’s a tumultuous relationship with infidelity, jealousy, physical and verbal violence,” summarizes the president of the court Eva Dunand-Fouillade. Terry Dupin has been convicted four times for acts of violence: “I was blinded, under the influence at that time, I thought it was better for the children to have their parents together than separated”, justifies the thirty-something.
This Tuesday, he wears a black suit and sports a “military” haircut. Only an upper part of his skull is unshaven. At the time of the events, he had to wear an electronic bracelet since May 3, 2021 following a conviction and could not reside with the young woman, even if they saw each other, according to him, regularly. “It was not love but possession, testifies at the bar Amandine It is not normal to be obliged to remain locked up or to see no one. “I have a lot of regrets about what happened, concerning the physical and psychological pain imposed on Amandine and my sons”, advance for his part the defendant.
The couple who have three children lived under the same roof. A camera had been installed there by Terry Dupin, in particular to monitor his companion. On the evening of May 31, he activated it remotely while Amandine no longer answered his calls. He then discovers that she is exchanging kisses with another man. “It’s as if I had never existed,” he said during his interrogation. Mad with rage, he will break a window at his house and equip himself to land at her place. At the helm, Amandine explains that he had been aware for at least two weeks that she was having an affair.
“We see a feeling of omnipotence”
Arriving at home, Terry Dupin then attacks Amandine. He drags her by the hair from the bathroom to the garden. He shoots between the boyfriend’s legs, without touching him. The children attend part of the scene. When the president asks him why he equipped himself as if to go on an Opex (external operation in military language), the defendant replied that he wanted to “die in uniform”. “Here, they are the ones who are attacked, you do not say at that time that you want to kill yourself, notes the president. The acts do not match. “I was angry, pained, I just wanted it to stop”, hardly articulates the defendant who threatened to commit suicide in front of his family, on entering the house.
When the soldiers of the Psig (Peloton of surveillance and intervention of the gendarmerie) arrive in reinforcement, Terry Dupin does not plan to surrender. He wants to avoid going back to prison at all costs. The one who was the subject in September 2020 of a ban on carrying weapons and returned part of his artillery. But he kept a rifle, undeclared. And during his run, he will equip his tactical vest with ballistic protection stolen from a gendarmerie vehicle.
“I didn’t want partial injuries but a lethal shot. I didn’t have the courage to do it myself, ”says the 30-something. Cautious, the president points out that he repeatedly uses the word “game” to refer to his run and the hunt for the gendarmes: “we see a feeling of omnipotence, stagings during videos that do not not sign the behavior of a desperate man. “I was trying to provoke the gendarmes,” defends the defendant. According to the ex-companion, this is the “true face” of Terry Dupin. If she does not comment on her suicidal state, Amandine assures us that he wanted to “fight it out”. The young woman will say later that she does not hate him and that she is not asking for the heaviest sentence but “that he is out of harm’s way, that he does no more harm”, insisting on her priority to protect her three children.
Terry Dupin faces up to fourteen years in prison, damages and the withdrawal of his parental authority, requested by the mother of his children. And the accused of slipping: “that evening I was selfish, I did not think of them. »