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A photo made available on April 23, 2011 shows the portrait of the suspect in the murder of his family Xavier Dupont Ligonnès on the registration form of his shooting club where he had carried out shooting exercises in Nantes. AFP PHOTO

The Frenchman Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès, suspected of having killed his wife and four children in 2011 in Nantes and actively sought since, was arrested Friday, October 11 at the airport in Glasgow, Scotland.

Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès was spotted by the police at Paris Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport before boarding, but the police did not have time to intervene and warned Interpol.

Upon his arrival in Glasgow, he was controlled, and according to the Scottish police, his fingerprints correspond to those of Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès, French sources close to the investigation told AFP. He was traveling under a false identity. Betrayed by his fingerprints, he did not oppose any resistance, reports Le Parisien .

According to France Info, he was reported by one of his relatives, who reportedly told the French police that he was going to fly to Glasgow. The information has been communicated to Europol.

For eight years, this man was actively sought after. Time and time again, reports were received by the investigators, whose thousands of written reports failed to say whether he was dead or alive, whether he had been able to organize his escape or if he had committed suicide.

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This central character of one of the most mysterious criminal puzzles of recent decades was last seen in April 2011: on April 14, he was filmed by the camera of a cash machine, and on the 15th, he had He left a hotel with a case on his back that could contain a rifle.

Six days later, the bodies of his wife and four children were discovered, buried under the terrace of their house in Nantes.

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