the Nantes prosecutor refutes the thesis of the suspect’s sister

In a recently published book, Christine Dupont de Ligonnès considers that the entire family could have been “exfiltrated” to the United States.

“Nothing allows judicial credit to be given” to the thesis recently defended in a book by the sister of Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès, according to which the whole family would still be alive, affirmed the public prosecutor of Nantes, Thursday March 21. In a recently published book, the suspect’s sister, Christine Dupont de Ligonnès, considers that the entire family could have been “exfiltrated” in the USA.

“I must confirm that there is nothing to give judicial credence to this version, which involves the falsification of judicial documents not only by the investigators but also by the experts who carried out the autopsies and the genetic fingerprint identification analyses. “, underlined in a press release the prosecutor, Renaud Gaudeul.

Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès is suspected of having killed his wife and four children in April 2011, whose bodies were found in Nantes under the terrace of the family home. He was never found. The investigation has not determined whether he was dead or on the run. At the beginning of the week, the family of Agnès Dupont de Ligonnès, the wife of the suspect, had already reacted to Christine’s comments, expressing “the most express reservations” on his version.

The case is still at the Nantes criminal center

“The recent release of the book and the promotion that several media outlets were kind enough to reserve for it shocked both the family of Agnès Dupont de Ligonnès and the investigators who worked and are still working on this case,” can we read in the press release.

The prosecutor also recalls that the Dupont de Ligonnès case is “still under investigation at the Nantes criminal center” And “was not entrusted to the serial or unsolved crimes unit of the Nanterre judicial court [le pôle ‘cold cases’]“.

“Contrary to what has been published, an imminent closure of the investigations is not on the agenda today,” the prosecutor further asserts. Investigators “continue their investigations in order to locate Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès”, says Renaud Gaudeul. Nowadays “more than 1,750 reports” have been “received and exploited”, in France and abroad.