He had been placed since 2005 in hospitalization without consent at the Unit for difficult patients (UMD) of Cadillac, in Gironde.

Justice accepted, Thursday in Bordeaux, the request of Romain Dupuy, author of the murders of two nurses in Pau in 2004, to be transferred to a classic psychiatric hospital, we learned from his lawyers.

At the end of 2007, Romain Dupuy, suffering from schizophrenia, had been found criminally not responsible for his actions and had not been tried for the stabbing murders at the psychiatric hospital center in Pau, of a nursing assistant and a nurse whom he had beheaded.

Regular requests for transfer to a conventional psychiatric hospital

His lawyers had been making regular requests for transfer to a conventional psychiatric hospital for several years, against the advice of the authorities.

In her order, the judge of freedoms and detention (JLD), who checks every six months that the internment regime for psychiatric patients without consent is in line with their mental state, considered that “the placement of Mr. Romain Dupuy in Unit for difficult patients has become irregular ”and ordered its lifting.

"It is constant and medically established that Mr. Romain Dupuy is no longer currently hospitalized in UMD", also estimated the judge, who requested that "the person concerned be kept in full hospitalization" outside of UMD.

Last year, the judge of freedoms and detention had declared itself incompetent on the question of the transfer of Romain Dupuy.

"Major reversal of jurisprudence"

“This ordinance constitutes a major reversal of case law.

It finally establishes a real control of the judicial judge, in this case the JLD, on the measures of care without consent in the UMD ”, reacted Hélène Lecat and Serge Portelli, the lawyers of Romain Dupuy.

The prefecture of Gironde, in favor of maintaining UMD, or the prosecution, can however appeal this decision within ten days.

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