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, was denied by the public prosecutor of Nantes, Friday March 22.
“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 fingerprint identification analyses. genetics”, underlined the prosecutor, Renaud Gaudeul, in a press release.
In a recently published book, the suspect’s sister, Christine Dupont de Ligonnès, considers that the entire family could have been “exfiltrated” to the United States.
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 did not determine whether he was dead or on the run.
Still dealing with the investigation
“The recent release of the book, and the promotion that several media outlets were kind enough to reserve for it, offended both the family of Agnès Dupont de Ligonnès and the investigators who worked and are still working on this case,” we can 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 “has not been entrusted to the serial or unsolved crimes center of the Nanterre judicial court”.
“Contrary to what has been published, an imminent closure of the investigations is not on the agenda today,” the prosecutor further asserts. Investigators “are continuing their investigations in order to locate Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès,” says Renaud Gaudeul. To date “more than 1,750 reports” have been “received and used”, in France and abroad.
