Terry Dupin, nicknamed the “Dordogne fanatic” after his stormy run in 2021, was sentenced this Thursday, April 27 in Périgueux to a 10-year prison sentence for aggravated violence, in particular towards his ex-partner 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.
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In May 2021, Terry Dupin, now 31, violently assaulted his former spouse, her new companion, and multiplied rifle fire at the police.
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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.
The court said it “guilty of all offences” 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.
“My only intention was to end my life”
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.
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The prosecutor of the Republic Solène Belaouar had requested Thursday morning a sentence of twelve years in prison after having portrayed a man ” determined “ et “methodical”.
The former soldier of the Brive infantry regiment was, at the time of the events, prohibited from carrying weapons and wearing an electronic bracelet.
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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 acted “not forgivable, nor excusable”. More “my only intention was to end my life” by pushing the gendarmes to kill him, he insisted on Thursday.
“Terry Dupin is not a monster, Terry Dupin is not a madman, 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”.
