REPORTAGE
The case of Dupont Ligonnès is back in the spotlight since Friday night after the arrest of a man at Glasgow Airport in Scotland. At first, the Scottish and French authorities thought it could be Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès, who had been missing for eight years, and suspected of killing his wife and four children aged 13 to 21, Nantes. Finally, the DNA tests proved that it was not him. In Nantes, the memory of this drama remains alive, as the correspondent for Europe 1 on the spot has seen.
Many residents stopped this Saturday morning near the former home of the Ligonnès, the "house of horror", as they call it. This return to the foreground of the name of Xavier Dupont Ligonnès has created dread in the streets of the city. "It's horrible," said Cecile, a very affected neighbor, at the microphone of Europe 1. "It disturbs me deeply as a human being.I would like to know that the responsible person is not going to get away I'm not in a blood feud, I think we should not fall in. But I have a sense of justice.
"That's a lot of questions"
Denis, another resident, who lived just behind the Ligonnès house, confessed to having dreamed of the affair that night. "We are very touched as a man from Nantes, we remember this drama very well, a hyper-catholic family that comes to that, that begs a lot of questions, they were in debt to the marrow and they were not able to "He accepted it, he decided in a totally hallucinating way, but unfortunately, you can not give life to a family," he said, visibly touched by the tragedy.
The majority of the inhabitants of Nantes questioned on the spot had difficulty to believe in the arrest of the "true" Dupont de Ligonnès, privileging rather the thesis of the suicide. Finally, the misunderstanding of the arrested man is among the many false tracks of this hunt that has lasted for eight years.