The magazine "Society", on newsstands Thursday, made its front page on a special report devoted to the disappearance of Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès, suspected of having killed his entire family in 2011 and since vanished. Europe 1 was able to read it in preview. 

Fans of unsolved criminal stories will not be bored this summer: after a special episode of Unsolved Mysteries - Les Enquêtes extraordinaires , some thirty pages of Society magazine are devoted to the Dupont de Ligonnès affair, this father suspected of having killed his wife and their four children in 2011, who has since disappeared. A major survey which made the front page and which Europe 1 was able to read in preview. 

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A route traced down to the minute

First information: this is only the first part of this investigation, the continuation of which will be found in the next issue - this is the first time that  Society has  devoted so many pages to a criminal case.

The investigation begins with two postcards: the first sent from Nantes, where Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès and his family lived. When you close your eyes, you hear the sound of seagulls, you smell the salt of the sea ... And then a second, posted this one from the Var: this is where the fugitive was seen for the very last time , in the smell of pines and the song of cicadas. In short, this investigation sticks as closely as possible to the facts. We are with Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès in the last weeks of the course traced by the investigators, sometimes down to the minute.

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"Characters who have never been at the center of the case"

But very quickly, the news takes over, with a portrait in the shape of a rubik's cube. There is De Ligonnès the salesman, De Ligonnès the scammer, De Ligonnès the Catholic, De Ligonnès the fickle husband ... A multifaceted man described by two of his friends: Michel and Emmanuel. For the latter, a question arises: "What would you have done if your best friend, whom you have known since you were 14, turned out to be a murderer and came to see you asking for help?" , ensures at the microphone of Europe 1 one of the deputy editors in chief of  Society , Pierre Boisson. 

"We want to be interested in all these characters who have never been at the center of the affair", continues the journalist. Continuation and end of the investigation in two weeks, with the next issue of the magazine.