Case Dupont Ligon: five years later, where are we? – TF1

On 21 April 2011 the public prosecutor of Nantes at the time, Xavier Ronsin, will launch a simple appeal for witnesses following the missing worrisome from a family. But a few minutes before the press conference, a human remains discovered in the garden of Dupont Ligon.

Five bodies were then exhumed: Agnes Dupont Ligon (48) and four children, Arthur (21), Thomas (18), Anne (16) and Benoît (13 years). All were killed with a 22 Long Rifle, probably two weeks earlier, between 3 and 5 April, at least two times in the head.

From then opens one of the most media-judicial puzzles. And the absence of traces of life as death, the father of this family, Xavier Dupont Ligon, the main suspect, still haunts the investigation.

Cavale or suicide?

The suicide theory is the more plausible by Brigitte Lamy, the prosecutor of the Republic of Nantes who succeeded Xavier Ronsin in 2012 but who will leave office at the end of the month . “It is a belief but we will be sure the day we discovered the body,” assured the magistrate in 2013.

However, despite extensive research, the body Xavier Dupont Ligon has never been found, which feeds the fantasies of many fans of this case. But not only … The sister of Xavier Dupont Ligon, Christine, as he raised by a mother who claims to receive messages from God, wants to believe that his brother is still alive. Recipient of the last letter of Xavier who said that his family and himself would be a witness protection program of the US Secret Service, she desperately clings to this thesis.

The doubts even earn PJ investigators who are trying for five years to unravel the mystery. “I do not deliver you my personal feeling but colleagues had mixed views,” the head of the PJ of Nantes, Jean-René Personnic, in an interview with Ouest France. For him, the thesis of the run hold water because “Xavier Dupont Ligon showed he had the intellectual resources to organize his escape.”

Nearly 1000 report in 5 years

Anyway, investigators take very seriously all the reported alerts. And there are many. Nearly 1,000 have been analyzed since April 15, 2011, the day Xavier Dupont Ligon was seen for the last time, leaving walk a Formule 1 hotel in Roquebrune-sur-Argens in the Var. With its “facies mat”, Xavier Dupont Ligon – within the scope of an international arrest warrant – was seen everywhere, and sometimes in the same day in South America or Australia.

The discovery of bones in April 2015 in the Var, not far from the last place had been seen the father, then a few months later, sending mail to AFP, had revived speculation about its fate. But in vain, DNA having in both cases allowed to remove these tracks.