The ex-soldier Terry Dupin, arrested on May 31 in Dordogne after a long hunt after the assault on his ex-partner, was indicted, in particular for "attempted assassination" and placed in custody. provisional detention Thursday, announced Friday the prosecutor of Périgueux, Solène Belaouar.

Terry Dupin was indicted "for aggravated willful violence committed on his ex-concubine with use or threat of a weapon and in the presence of the couple's children, all in a state of legal recidivism, attempted murder on the man who accompanied his ex-concubine at the time of the facts "," assassination attempt targeting several soldiers of the gendarmerie "and" attempted homicide targeting three other people ", detailed the prosecutor, during a press conference in Périgueux .

Still hospitalized 

Seriously injured in the throat during his arrest and since hospitalized, the ex-soldier, aged 29, “was not imprisoned, he will be relieved as long as his state of health requires it from a hospital structure specializing in care for detained persons, ”said the prosecutor. 

Currently still hospitalized at the Bordeaux University Hospital under the responsibility of the prison administration, he "is not currently able to speak" because of his injuries but "he is however able to express himself by wrote ”, she also indicated, stressing that“ Terry Dupin was cooperative with the investigators, and even rather in asking to be explained ”.

Already convicted four times for violence against his ex-wife, the young man, armed with an alarm pistol and a 30-30 caliber Winchester rifle, fled on May 30 in a wooded and difficult area access to Lardin-Saint-Lazare after assaulting his former companion at home and shooting her friend, without reaching her.

He was seriously injured during his arrest 36 hours later by a retaliatory fire from the GIGN gendarmes on whom he had fired several times.

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