Investigators from the Central Office for the Suppression of Violence against Persons (OCRVP) went to the Var to comb through the cemetery in the village where Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès was last seen on April 15, 2011.
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Searches in the cemetery of Roquebrune-sur-Argens (Var) in the context of the disappearance of Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès, wanted for a quintuple homicide in 2011, took place last week but have not “brought significant new elements”said the public prosecutor of Nantes, Renaud Gaudeul, to France Bleu Loire Océan on Wednesday, September 18.
Investigators from the Nantes organized and specialized crime division and investigators from the central office for the suppression of violence against people (OCRVP) went to the Var to comb through the village cemetery where Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès was last seen on April 15, 2011. In 2018, the investigations led them to the monastery of Roquebrune-sur-Argens where worshipers thought they recognized him during a mass. In June 2021, investigators searched, without result, several graves in another cemetery in the Var, that of Grimaud, located about thirty kilometers from Roquebrune-sur-Argens.
In March, several people reported that an individual bore resemblances to Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès within the community of Dominican sisters of Bethany, in Montferrand-le-Château, near Besançon (Doubs). The DNA analyzed did not match that of the suspect in the murder of his wife and four children, who is still missing.