In April 2011, a family drama shook France. A drama that remains today the biggest criminal enigma of the century in France. This concerns Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès, a man suspected of having killed his wife, his four children, as well as his two dogs, before disappearing into the wild.
Since 2011, despite the many efforts made by French justice, the investigation has stagnated. Is he dead ? Is he alive? This question still has no answer more than 10 years after the tragedy. On numerous occasions and in the four corners of the world, people think they have crossed paths with him but the police have never been able to get their hands on him.
On October 11, 2019, however, a man had been arrested at Glasgow airport as he was joining his Scottish wife. The police in Scotland thought they had indeed succeeded in arresting Xavier Dupont de Ligonnes but it was in fact a certain Guy Joao, a pensioner who had been mistaken for the most wanted man in France.
In its Wednesday edition, Soir Mag evoked a disturbing revelation which could well relaunch the myth of his fugue on the other side of the Atlantic. A former neighbor of the father of the family would indeed have crossed the road of XDDL in San Francisco. In 2015, while the couple dubbed “Les D.” visit their son “employee of a multinational in Silicon Valley” in San Francisco, they walk in the French quarter of the Californian city.
Soir Mag then explains that Catherine, the wife and former neighbor, then enters a shop when an individual jostles her. Turning around, the latter would then have immediately recognized Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès and pronounced, aloud, his first name. The man stood with a “tailored shirt and a neatly shaved beard”, as she describes it.
The one she then suspects to be Xavier Dupont de Ligonnes would then have lost his means and fled. After pronouncing his identity, the man would have “widened his eyes before turning around at a run”.
Asked about this, his childhood friend Bruno de Stabenrath, who has already written a book about the disappearance of XDDL called “L’ami impossible”, it is very likely that it was indeed Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès who found in this store. “If it hadn’t been for Xavier, he would have simply replied: ‘Hello madam'”, he argues with Soir Mag.