Ten years after the discovery of the body of his wife and children, Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès, suspected of being the author of the murders, still remains untraceable.
A handful of investigators continue to work on the case, but some of them believe it is dead.
Will this criminal enigma, with its extraordinary media coverage, be resolved one day?
For 10 years and the discovery in April 2011 of the body of his wife and four children under the terrace of their house in Nantes, Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès, suspected of being the author of the murders, has still not been found.
But if the hope of one day concluding this investigation is reduced day by day, the judicial police are not giving up and are continuing their research.
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Obviously, the searches are much less intense than ten years ago, but a handful of investigators, in three different services, distribute reports every week to verify.
Because there are still people, in good faith, who believe they have seen Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès, and no longer only in France, but all over the world, even more since Netflix released a documentary last year.
Hundreds of reports abroad
More than 150 reports have already been verified abroad, from Thailand to South Africa via Chicago, not to mention the quack of the Scots in October 2019, with the arrest of a false suspect.
In France, we have not even counted the reports for ten years, which each time, have turned out to be false leads.
A few times, however, less than ten, there was serious doubt, to the point that the police had to compare the fingerprints.
But in the end, it was not Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès.
The hypothesis of suicide remains probable
Is Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès dead?
This is the question that everyone has been asking for ten years.
Everyone has a theory, including the police.
They will never say it officially, but those with whom Europe 1 exchanged, off the microphone, are convinced that he is dead, that he would have committed suicide at the end of his flight.
For investigators, this is the most probable, the most rational hypothesis.
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But that does not prevent them from checking everything without a priori.
The fact remains that for ten years, not a single clue suggests a contact, a movement, a trace of life.
In the Var hinterland where he has disappeared, the slightest suspicious bone is systematically analyzed.
In short, the police do not lose hope of one day finding Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès, but they all admit it bitterly: ten years later, they have nothing.
No concrete leads to solve the mystery.