Veteran ” hardened “, four times sentenced for violence against his ex-partner, but also “Model employee” and faithful friend: the day after the arrest of Terry Dupin, the portrait of the one who became “The madman of Dordogne »Offers contrasting colors.
Chased since Sunday by more than 300 gendarmes, the 29-year-old was seriously injured in the throat by GIGN retaliatory fire Monday May 31, after a 36-hour hunt in a wooded area of 4 km², which ended in Condat-sur-Vézère.
A heavily armed man
Heavily armed, in operational gear, he repeatedly targeted the police with a hunting rifle, without hope of negotiation. The GIGN tried to get in touch with him with a megaphone, “And each time the man shot them”, tells theAFP a source close to the investigation.
His violent journey begins in the night from Saturday to Sunday at the home of his ex-wife, mother of his three children, in the adjoining village of Lardin-Saint-Lazare, where he goes despite the electronic bracelet forbidding him to approach her.
There, he attacks her before shooting his companion and fainting in the night. In this subdivision on the heights of the village, residents are awakened by a crash of “Broken dishes, screams and gunshots”.
A call for witnesses broadcast
Sure the call for witnesses broadcast on Monday, the former soldier from 2011 to 2016 who served in the Brive infantry regiment, appears with a long beard and hair shaved to the sides.
Athletic with his 1.83 m, ” hardened “ and “Enduring”, he could “Live several days independently »And was in a “Suicidal logic”, estimates General André Pétillot, commander of the gendarmerie region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
“He was really in a ‘suicide by cop’ scenario (killed by police shooting)”, according to a source close to the investigation.
Several missions abroad
Born in Rosny-sous-Bois but arrived in Dordogne at the age of 7, holder of a CAP as a machine operator, he carried out several missions abroad before leaving the army to be closer to his family, according to the newspaper South West .
Even after leaving the army, he retained a taste for weapons, according to the pages and photos visible on his social networks. However, he was prohibited from owning any.
With his wife, whom he met in 2013, life as a couple is tumultuous, punctuated by violence that earned him four sentences of six months in prison suspended to one year, pronounced between March 2015 and February 2020.
At the village, “This is not the first time that we have dealt with him”, confides Benoît, a resident of Lardin-Saint-Lazare. “In (August) 2017, we had already had the gendarmes, the helicopters […] He had gone to his ex-companion “ and “Screwed up the shit”.
A difficult childhood “
At the time, the young man entered through the roof, hid in a closet and hit her before attacking his brother-in-law. During a hearing, the president of the court had mentioned his ” difficult childhood “. “Everything about him shows suffering”, had underlined the public prosecutor.
Psychiatric expertise saw in him a structure “Obsessive type” and “A risk of recurrence”. “I can no longer control myself”, he admitted at the bar. “She’s been handling him for years”, affirms today a person presenting himself as a relative “For 20 years” and contacted on social networks.
“Not the Terry we know”
Faced with looping footage presenting the man as “Dangerous”, Yannick a farmer, friend “For at least ten years”, assure : “It’s not the Terry we know”. “He must have gone wild because he was exhausted”, he says to South West.
In the Dordogne public works company where the man had been on a permanent contract since the end of August, as a truck driver, his boss described a “Model employee […] very calm, calm, polite, very respectful ”. An inhabitant of the subdivision of the former companion evokes a “Great guy who was worth gold, always helpful”.
Terry Dupin, hospitalized at Bordeaux University Hospital, is not yet able to be heard by investigators.
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