Justice accepted, Thursday June 9 in Bordeaux, the request of Romain Dupuy, author of the murders of two nurses in Pau in 2004, to be transferred from a Unit for difficult patients (UMD) to a classic psychiatric hospital, a- we learned from his lawyers.
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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.
Since 2005, he has been placed in complete hospitalization without consent at the UMD in Cadillac, in Gironde, despite regular requests for transfer to a conventional psychiatric hospital from his lawyers in recent years, against the advice of the authorities.
“Romain Dupuy is no longer currently hospitalized in UMD”
In her order consulted by AFP on Thursday, the judge of freedoms and detention (JLD), who verifies 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 the Unit for difficult patients has become irregular
" and ordered his lifting.
"
It is constant and medically noted that 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.
“
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 Me Hélène Lecat and Serge Portelli, the lawyers of Romain Dupuy.
According to them, this decision “
is part of the constant evolution of the law in this area after the recognition of the need for the intervention of the judicial judge to control the isolation and restraint of patients placed in psychiatry from now on
”.
The prefecture of Gironde, in favor of maintaining UMD, or the prosecution, can appeal this decision within 10 days.
