Dupont de Ligonnès case: new checks underway after several reports in a religious community

A woman who participated in the &agrav; a prayer vigil at Montferrand-le-Château on March 9 claimed to have recognized Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès, wanted; for the murder of his wife and two children. DNA analyzes are currently being carried out by investigators.

Is the Xavier Dupont de Ligonn&egrave case about to be resolved ? After&egrave ;s a report from a woman who thinks she came across a the road of Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès in Doubs, the police proceed to attack; verifications, while two new people also claim to have potentially recognized him, revealed l'Is Republican, Friday April 5. The first of them would have crossed paths with him. during a prayer vigil in the presence of nuns and lay people, last March 9 within the community of Saints. nun of the Dominicans of Bethany à Montferrand-le-Château.

Number one suspect in the murder of his wife and four children Nantes in April 2011, Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès, who must be 63 years old today, is still nowhere to be found. “The investigators found" people who were present that day and proceeded to &agrav; numerous auditions", announcedé Étienne Manteaux, the prosecutor of the Republic of Besançon. An investigation was also carried out. opened and entrusted to the gendarmes of the Besançon research brigade. Still according to the elected official, one of the members of the religious congregation would have come in the company of a " ;named Jean, whose community "The verb of life" has été dissolved in July 2023 and who told walk on the roads since then, without identity documents.

Seven people interviewed

If at least three of the participants admitted to the investigators that they had recognized the features of Xavier Dupont de Ligonn behind those of "Jean", including two without formal certainty, the fact remains that these testimonies have been contradicted by four others. As pointed out the prosecutor, these latter people explained having noted no resemblance between the two men. In order to remove all doubts, elements on cans drunk by the visitor were taken into account. collected for analysis for DNA extraction. The DNA collected will then be compared &agrav; that of Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès.

The religious trail had been é explored à many times. In January 2018, a law enforcement operation was carried out. carried out in a monastery in the Var after several reports from faithful convinced of having recognized the alleged murderer. &agrav; Mass. It was ultimately a monk who resembled him, recalls L'Est republicain.