

The Real Mystery of Marie Roget features Dupin (Terry Molloy) visiting. The suspect was used to operating on his own and could stay hidden for many days, said Andre Petillot, the commander of the regional police force.Įlite forces, over 300 gendarmes, sniffer dogs as well as 11 armored vehicles and 7 choppers have been searching for him since Saturday. Auguste Dupin oyst dyp is a fictional character created by Edgar Allan. Perissat said “this man is potentially very dangerous. Our goal is to arrest this character without endangering the population,” the Dordogne Prefect Federic Perissat told a news conference. Officers then came under fire when they arrived at the scene.

He was hiding out in a forest outside the village of Le. The suspect went to his ex-partner’s house around midnight Saturday into Sunday and threatened her new boyfriend, police said. Authorities had released a picture of the suspect, Terry Dupin, earlier on Monday, describing the 29-year-old as a dangerous individual.

The 1,800 residents of Le Lardin-Saint-Lazare village in the Dordogne were urged to stay at home and schools were shuttered as police helicopters circled in the sky. Officials reported earlier that police with sniffer dogs were combing woods in southwestern France on Monday for a man who opened fire on officers who were responding to a domestic violence incident.Īuthorities said the man was a heavily armed former soldier who they believed was carrying a long-range hunting rifle. An armed former soldier on the run in southwestern France has been detained after being seriously wounded in a shootout with security forces following a massive manhunt, the local police head said on Monday.
