tracked for 36 hours by the gendarmes, the frenzied Terry Dupin will be tried in correctional at the end of April

The man tracked for 36 hours by the gendarmes in Dordogne in May 2021 at Lardin-Saint-Lazare will not be tried at the assizes, but in correctional from April 25 to 27, France Bleu Périgord learned from the Périgueux prosecutor’s office this Wednesday . Terry Dupin will be judged in particular for “willful violence with weapons” on “persons vested with public authority”said the prosecution.

A few days after his arrest, the maniac had been indicted for attempted murder of the companion of his ex-girlfriend, attempted murder of several gendarmes, and attempted murder of three other people. Acts liable to the assize court. But the instruction, indicates France Bleu Périgord, did not make it possible to determine with certainty that Terry Dupin had a “homicidal intent”. The investigating judge, in accordance with the requisitions of the prosecution, therefore decided to reclassify the facts as intentional violence with a weapon.

A hunt in the forest

On May 31, 2021, Terry Dupin was wounded in the throat by a response fire from the GIGN after a hunt of two nights and a day which had mobilized more than 300 gendarmes. The 29-year-old man at the time, already convicted four times for domestic violence, had gone to his ex-wife’s house to attack her boyfriend. The madman, heavily drunk and armed with a rifle and a pistol, had then riddled with bullets the car of the gendarmes who were waiting for him outside.

A 36-hour flight into the forest followed, punctuated by numerous gunshots. A gendarmerie helicopter had been hit by a bullet, as well as several gendarmerie cars. Former soldier of the 126th infantry regiment of Brive, Terry Dupin had been hospitalized several weeks after his throat injury. He made several suicide attempts in prison.

Terry Dupin being in a state of recidivism “for all these facts”, indicates the prosecution to France Bleu, he faces up to 14 years in prison and a fine of 200,000 euros. He was held in pre-trial detention until his appearance in court.