Ultimately, it was two police officers who found the mutilated bodies of Chantal Klimaszewski, 48, and Lucette Gariod, 40. The nurse and the orderly are lying in a pool of blood. One of them was decapitated.
The shock wave will quickly spread throughout France. The Minister of Health at the time, Philippe Douste-Blazy, who immediately went to the scene. At the Élysée, Jacques Chirac expresses his “indignation”.
At Hédas, he shoots the police
Very quickly, in Pau, psychosis follows the trauma because the author remains unknown. Until the arrest on January 29, 2005 at Hédas of a 21-year-old young man who, during a routine check, attempted several times to shoot a crew from the anti-crime brigade.
This is Romain Dupuy, a former patient who was adrift. DNA analysis confirmed that he was the author of the double murder and on February 1, he confessed. But his story testifies to his psychiatric disorders.
Diagnosed with schizophrenia in 2001, he has stopped taking treatment. Romain Dupuy was immediately taken to a closed unit at Cadillac hospital. The debate on his criminal responsibility will last three years.
Coming out of Cadillac UMD in 2023
At the end of August 2007, Nicolas Sarkozy, President of the Republic, was questioned by the families of the victims who demanded a trial. What the investigating judge’s dismissal order has just dismissed. They will finally obtain a public debate before the investigating chamber.
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After three days of hearing, the magistrates confirmed on December 14, 2007 the abolition of the accused’s discernment. Romain Dupuy remained locked up in the unit for difficult patients (UMD) in Cadillac for 19 years.
After a long legal-administrative battle, his lawyers Hélène Lecat and Serge Portelli obtained his transfer in October 2023 to an ordinary psychiatric ward at the Charles-Perrens hospital center in Bordeaux. But it is still a forced hospitalization where Romain Dupuy, now 41 years old, can only benefit from accompanied outings.
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