Terry Dupin was sentenced for aggravated violence, in particular towards his ex-companion and the gendarmes. The judges also issued a care injunction and a withdrawal of parental authority.
Terry Dupin, nicknamed the “madman of Dordogne” after his stormy run in 2021, was sentenced this Thursday in Périgueux to a 10-year prison term for aggravated violence, in particular towards his ex-companion and the gendarmes.
The judges of the criminal court also issued a care injunction and a withdrawal of parental authority over his three children, two years after a 36-hour hunt to arrest him.
In May 2021, Terry Dupin, now 31, violently assaulted his former spouse, her new companion, and multiplied rifle fire at the police.
This former soldier who, according to him, wanted to be killed by the gendarmes, had been seriously injured in the neck by the GIGN during his arrest, in a post-Covid context where cases of madmen had been repeated in France. He listened to the pronouncement of the judgment with his head lowered, without reaction.
A “determined” and “methodical” man
The court declared him “guilty of all the offenses” with which he was charged, ordering his continued detention and also adding to his sentence a ban on contacting his ex-partner or approaching his home.
Already sentenced four times for violence against his former spouse and placed in pre-trial detention for two years, the defendant faced 14 years in prison and a fine of 200,000 euros. Public prosecutor Solène Belaouar had requested a twelve-year prison sentence on Thursday morning after portraying a “determined” and “methodical” man.
The former soldier of the Brive infantry regiment was, at the time of the events, prohibited from carrying weapons and wearing an electronic bracelet.
Acts “not forgivable, nor excusable”
At the hearing, speaking in a metallic voice, raising his hand to the tracheostomy tube placed on his throat, Terry Dupin expressed his regrets and said he was the victim of his “anger”. He admitted to having had acts “not forgivable, nor excusable”. But “my only intention was to end my life” by pushing the gendarmes to kill him, he insisted Thursday.
“Terry Dupin is not a monster, Terry Dupin is not a fanatic, he is a sensitive man”, pleaded his lawyer, Me Arnaud Dupin, believing that his client did not deserve “the walls of a prison for a decade.”
