As our colleagues from France Bleu Gironde point out, a judge of freedoms and detention in Bordeaux ordered him to be kept in full hospitalization for at least six months.
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A series of incidents (positive analyzes for alcohol, THC residues found, refusal to submit to new analyses) and a psychiatric expertise ordered by the prefecture – and which affirms that Romain Dupuy is not ready for relationships with others, his pathology potentially impacting his interpretations of the behavior of others and leading to “undesirable” reactions – motivated this decision, according to the Bordeaux prosecutor's office.
As a reminder, after killing a nurse and a caregiver at the Pyrenees hospital center in 2004, he was declared criminally irresponsible due to mental disorders, then locked up in the unit for difficult patients (UMD) in Cadillac for 19 years old.
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After a long legal-administrative battle, his lawyers Hélène Lecat and Serge Portelli obtained in October 2023 his transfer to an ordinary psychiatric service at the Charles-Perrens hospital center in Bordeaux, in which he could benefit from accompanied outings.
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