It was 13 years ago already. In April 2011, Agnès Dupont de Ligonnès was found dead alongside her four children, all five of whom were buried under the terrace of the family home in Nantes with the two family dogs. Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès becomes the number one suspect and the most wanted man in France, and elements allow investigators to highlight his guilt: the man bought quicklime two days before the quintuple assassination and was seen after the events in the Var, using his credit card to withdraw the sum of 30 euros from an ATM. This is the last appearance of Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès. Since April 14, 2011, the most wanted man in France remains untraceable, and the investigation is at a standstill. Is he alive? Is he dead ? Is he still in France?
This Saturday March 9, 2024, Christine Dupont de Ligonnès was the guest of Léa Salamé and Christophe Dechavanne in
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alongside her husband Bertram de Verdun. The sister of the main suspect wanted to give her point of view on this sordid news item, and followed up with wild theories, arguing that her sister-in-law, her nephews and her niece had left to start a new life in the United States, and that it was a “staging”. For her, the police, the morgue, and the French state are all complicit in this “exfiltration” historical, in order to cover the Dupont de Ligonnès family on their departure.
A letter sent a few days before the tragedy
“Certainly it’s a set-up (…) I understand that people find it far-fetched, it’s a hypothesis that has been brushed aside, but the arguments put to me don’t have that much weight only that” assured the one who published with Harper Collins the novel Xavier, my brother, presumed innocent, in which she claims to have received a handwritten letter from her brother, shortly before his disappearancein which he premeditated the latter, and that of his entire family. “In this letter, Xavier clearly tells me that he has been in intelligence for not. There are elements that I cannot explain in his life, which this letter sheds light on.“ assured the fifty-year-old.
For Christine de Ligonnès, thirteen years after the events and the discovery of the five bodies, Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès would be good “alive” and perfectly “innocent”but better yet, Agnès, his sister-in-law, would also be alivejust like their four children Thomas, Arthur, Anne and Benoît, yet all found murdered under the terrace of the Nantes residence. For the sister, Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès did not commit suicide, on the grounds that he would have no reason to carry out such an act: “I think he’s alive. We have no reason to believe he committed suicide.” A shocking testimony, which somewhat shocked the Web, with many viewers denouncing the disconcerting theories of the budding writer.