Terry Dupin is a 29-year-old ex-soldier who was wanted after an attempted homicide. He was injured in his arrest by the GIGN. – National Gendarmerie
- The man was tracked down by the gendarmes after an attempted homicide on the boyfriend of his ex-girlfriend. He had been convicted four times in the past for violence against the latter.
- A former soldier, he was armed and opened fire as soon as he saw the gendarmes. General André Pétillot describes an individual driven by “a suicidal logic”.
- He was seriously injured in the throat during his arrest and his vital prognosis is engaged.
After 36 hours on the run, Terry Dupin, a 29-year-old young man wanted after an attempted homicide on the boyfriend of his ex-girlfriend was subdued by the GIGN on Monday noon, in Lardin-Saint-Lazare, near Sarlat (Dordogne). He was seriously shot in the throat during his arrest. Injuries that are likely to endanger his life, according to the general of the gendarmerie André Pétillot.
He has already been sentenced four times between 2016 and 2020 for domestic violence on this former partner, who is the mother of his three children. According to an article by South West Published in September 2017, he was also a victim of violence himself as a child. In front of the court, he had also let go, concerning the repeated violence against his ex-partner, that he could no longer “control himself”.
Determined and desperate
The former soldier, in service from 2011 to 2016, belonged to the Brive infantry regiment. Tall and athletic, he gave the gendarmes a hard time. He was armed with a hunting rifle, a 30-30 caliber Winchester which he used several times in his escape from the police, causing significant material damage to their vehicles.
His training and his expertise in the handling of weapons had prompted the authorities to provide a particularly impressive device to track him down. More than 300 gendarmes, seven helicopters and armored vehicles were mobilized to crisscross the wooded area and flush it out. He was arrested when he was about to leave the 4 km2 perimeter cordoned off by the authorities.
In 2017, the young man had already fled after having used violence against his ex, from whom he was already separated at the time. He went a few hours later to the Terrasson police station, according to information from South West. But during this new run, he seemed very determined not to surrender. At the time of his arrest on Monday, he did not hesitate to open fire on the GIGN and was hit by “a retaliatory fire”, explained the prefect of the Dordogne and General André Pétillot, commander of the area. of defense and security of Bordeaux, during the press point that followed the operation. The gendarme spoke of an individual animated by a “suicidal logic”.
Since the end of August, he was employed in CDI as a truck driver in a public works company in Dordogne and “we would never have suspected something like that”, told AFP the president of the company, who wants to remain anonymous. “He was a model employee, we have nothing to reproach him”, “someone exemplary, very calm, calm, polite, very respectful”, who “dialogued when we wanted to dialog”.