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with Writing RTL, Damien Delseny posted on 21/04/2015 at 13:47

This is one of the largest French criminal mystery. April 21, 2011, the body of Agnes Dupont Ligon and four children Arthur, Thomas, Anne and Benoit were found hiding in a trench under the terrace of the family home in Nantes, all executed with a bullet to the head . Xavier, the father remains the number one suspect , but is mostly found. Volumes folder yet fill a wardrobe. And a case in the shape of failure for investigators.

The last signs of life

A man walks away, a backpack, under the eye of surveillance cameras from a parking lot of a cheap Roquebrune-sur-Argens . This is the last image of Xavier Dupont Ligon. We April 15, 2011 and hundreds of kilometers of Nantes, where his family lies beneath the terrace. For four years the investigators stumble on this image. Is he on the run for? Did he commit suicide? Even investigators are shared. According to them, when the father disappears, his wife and children died ten days. Their bodies will be discovered only on 21 April. The investigation has started very late .

Since the police and the first judge had dug that a track, that of father’s killer decimating his family . They searched the past of the man in search of a mobile. Debts, a conjugal life full of secrets. They collected a series of clues, sister and Xavier’s mother, they have never believed in this version. But four years later, they have given up, as confirmed by their lawyer Stéphane Godenstein.

A case muted

But he still there’s investigators that really work on the record? Yes, the judicial police in Nantes and in a few specialized offices of the central management of the PJ in Nanterre. But it should rather speak of a watch. For example, it is necessary to verify all reports that continue to arrive. Last month, another audit was conducted in Gironde Soulac-sur-Mer . While a witness claimed to have recognized Xavier Dupont Ligon at the station. The man looked like him but it was not him.

Last year, there were dozens of reports like this. This is much less than before. The police also continue to take the DNA of all the bodies found in France , which have similarities with the suspect. However, excavations of caves and quarries conducted several times in the Var were dropped. Particularly because of the cost.

A survey costly

And the judges take into account the aspect budget surveys now. Each expertise, each trip costs money. And in long-term investigations, like, this, or such as that of the killing of Chevaline in the Alps, the problem eventually landed. And without a coup de theater, an investigation might stop here . By cons, there will probably be a trial. Since the arrest warrant which aims Xavier Dupont Ligon four years amounts to an indictment. But it is likely to happen without anyone in the dock. Dead or alive, Xavier Dupont Ligon still holds the secret of the killing of Nantes.

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