ANALYSIS
Eight years later, the case of Dupont de Ligonnès nearly came to an end. The whole of France went to bed on Friday night, thinking that the man who killed his wife and three children in 2011 before burying them under the roof of their house in Nantes had been arrested in Scotland. From Friday evening, the first questions about the identity of the arrested suspect are issued, particularly in light of this testimony Jacques Jacques Joey's neighbor Jacques Joao 1 in Limay, which you can listen to here. In the morning, doubts evaporate. The man arrested at Glasgow airport is not Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès.
The question comes back to the foreground media: where is Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès? Some say it's dead, others think he's had cosmetic surgery. Jean-Marc Bloch, former director of Regional Judicial Police Services (SRPJ) in Versailles, firmly believes that the man is still alive. "As far as he could learn this mistake, it must make him smile," he says, bitter, on Europe 1.
"By this camera outside the hotel Formula 1, he says goodbye"
Jean-Marc Bloch also discusses the flight of Xavier Dupont Ligonnès: "We mix a lot of things.There are rascals thugs, for narcotics cases for example, and there, they must flee right away. This is really what is called a "cavalcade." As far as Dupont de Ligonnès is concerned, it is a flight, he has prepared his act, if he is the author, there is the presumption of innocence. "
He explains: "He has prepared his escape, it is not due to chance.There is a point of rupture in Roquebrune-sur-Argens (Var) There, somewhere, by this camera outside the Formula 1 hotel, he says goodbye, Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès is no longer Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès, it's Monsieur je-ne-sais-qui, it could be a Scottish or American name or whatever He probably has another identity, which he has already prepared, and probably a base that only he knows, Dupont de Ligonnès, from that moment, has disappeared, "the expert analysis.
"It would be amazing that he did all this to commit suicide then"
One thing is certain for him: Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès is not dead and lives somewhere, in France or elsewhere. "It would be surprising that he did all this, that he was premeditated, that he delayed the search of the police by answering messages and letters, to commit suicide then".
The former director of the SRPJ said: "In general, in family dramas, the perpetrator of suicide commits suicide in the next 5 or 10 minutes.This is a kind of crisis that reaches its climax. cold, it's very calculated, it's methodical ".