INTERVIEW
The person arrested Friday at the airport in Gasgow Scotland is ultimately not Xavier Dupont Ligonnès. According to Jean-Paul Le Tensorer, police officer in charge of the case now retired, the man suspected of killing his wife and four children in 2011 in Nantes, in fact died. "When I was informed that Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès had been arrested, I was very surprised because he was a character at the end of the roll," says the former interregional director of West Judicial Police.
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"He was planning to set fire to the family pavilion and stay in the inferno"
"He was ruined, he had borrowed money from his close friends, his mistresses, he had squandered the inheritance of his wife, the rent was no longer paid ...", he continues. His investigations led him to the hypothesis that the alleged killer would be dead. "We had recovered the computer equipment from a friend of hers: in one of the letters addressed to this friend, Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès expressed his concerns and was planning a night to set fire in the family pavilion and stay in the inferno . "
Another track that confirms the thesis of Jean-Paul Le Tensorer: the lack of money would not have allowed the fugitive most famous of France to remain eight years on the run. "A run is financed," says the former policeman. "We do not see how Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès could have done it: we have to do cosmetic surgery, false identity documents, cut ourselves off from all ties with friends and family ..."