Significant means had been deployed to control the ex-soldier. – Thibaud Moritz / AFP
The ex-soldier Terry Dupin, arrested on May 31 in Dordogne after a long hunt after the assault on his ex-partner, was indicted, in particular for “attempted assassination” and placed in custody. provisional detention Thursday, announced Friday the prosecutor of Périgueux, Solène Belaouar.
Terry Dupin was indicted “for aggravated willful violence committed on his ex-concubine with use or threat of a weapon and in the presence of the couple’s children, all in a state of legal recidivism, attempted murder on the man who accompanied his ex-concubine at the time of the facts “,” assassination attempt targeting several soldiers of the gendarmerie “and” attempted homicide targeting three other people “, detailed the prosecutor, during a press conference in Périgueux .
Still hospitalized
Seriously injured in the throat during his arrest and since hospitalized, the ex-soldier, aged 29, “was not imprisoned, he will be relieved as long as his state of health requires it from a hospital structure specializing in care for detained persons, ”said the prosecutor.
Currently still hospitalized at the Bordeaux University Hospital under the responsibility of the prison administration, he “is not currently able to speak” because of his injuries but “he is however able to express himself by wrote ”, she also indicated, stressing that“ Terry Dupin was cooperative with the investigators, and even rather in demand to explain himself ”.
Already convicted four times for violence against his ex-wife, the young man, armed with an alarm pistol and a 30-30 caliber Winchester rifle, fled on May 30 in a wooded and difficult area access to Lardin-Saint-Lazare after assaulting his former companion at home and shooting her friend, without reaching her.
“Six sequences of shots against the police”
According to Solène Belaoua, “the provisional balance sheet of this run shows six sequences of shots against the police, involving 53 soldiers present during his sequences, ten degraded gendarmerie vehicles and a helicopter hit by bullet”. In total, more than 300 gendarmes supported by helicopters and armored vehicles had been mobilized and Terry Dupin was arrested 36 hours later, by a response fire from the GIGN.
The prosecutor gave details on the relations which the ex-spouses maintained at the time of the facts, affirming that they “in reality saw each other again”.
According to Solène Belaoua, on May 30, Terry Dupin, wearing an electronic bracelet, “was with his ex-concubine at Lardin-Saint-Lazare until around 5 pm. He then returned alone to his home in Buisson-de-Cadouin “about fifty kilometers from the home of his ex-partner,” in order to respect his house arrest schedules, “she said.
Later, the young man “discovered that his ex-concubine was in the company of a man at his home” and “it is in this context that he decided to go, armed, to Lardin-Saint-Lazare”, she related.