A woman who participated in a prayer vigil in Montferrand-le-Château on March 9 claims to have recognized Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès, wanted for the murder of his wife and two children. DNA analyzes are currently being carried out by investigators.
Is the Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès affair about to be resolved? After a report from a woman who thought she had crossed paths with Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès in Doubs, the police carried out checks, while two new people also claimed to have potentially recognized him, revealed theIs Republican, Friday April 5. The first of them would have encountered him during a prayer vigil in the presence of nuns and lay people, on March 9 within the religious community of the Dominicans of Béthanie in Montferrand-le-Château.
Suspect number one in the murder of his wife and four children in Nantes in April 2011, Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès, who must be 63 years old today, is still nowhere to be found. “The investigators found people who were present that day and carried out numerous hearings,” announced Étienne Manteaux, the public prosecutor of Besançon. An investigation was also opened and entrusted to the gendarmes of the Besançon research brigade. Still according to the elected official, one of the members of the religious congregation would have come in the company of a “named Jean, whose community “The Verb of Life” was dissolved in July 2023 and who said he had been walking on the roads since then. , without identity documents.
Seven people interviewed
If at least three of the participants admitted to the investigators that they had recognized the features of Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès behind those of “Jean”, including two without formal certainty, the fact remains that these testimonies were contradicted by four others. As the prosecutor pointed out, these latter people explained that they had noticed no resemblance between the two men. In order to remove all doubts, elements on cans drunk by the visitor were taken to be analyzed for DNA extraction. The DNA collected will then be compared to that of Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès.
The religious avenue had been explored several times. In January 2018, a law enforcement operation was carried out in a monastery in the Var after several reports from faithful convinced they had recognized the alleged murderer at mass. It was ultimately a monk who resembled him, recalls L’Est republican.