On April 15, 2011, Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès left his F1 hotel in Roquebrune-sur-Argens, in the Var.
Ten days earlier, he would have coldly murdered his wife, Agnès, as well as their four children and their two dogs.
The day before he disappeared, he was last seen on a cash machine's CCTV camera.
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Eleven years later, investigators are still looking for his trace.
But Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès remains untraceable.
However, there are many leads.
"XDDL", dead or alive?
Naturally, the Nantes judicial police (PJ) first looked at the last place visited by Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès: the Var was searched from top to bottom.
The Formula 1 hotel, the rock of Roquebrune, the cavities, caves, underground... The judicial police combed the area.
Even an abbey in Indre, the traditionalist abbey of Saint-Michel-en-Brenne, has been the subject of research.
And despite these multiple investigations, the finding is distressing: nothing, nada.
But investigators are not giving up.
“
Sooner or later, he will end up making a mistake
”, slips to
Figaro
a police source convinced that Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès is still alive.
According to him, it is impossible that the father of the family committed suicide: "
psychological studies show that if, in 48 hours, the assassin has not committed suicide, it is very unlikely that he will. do then.
Because after this time, if he has not taken action, it is because he has been able to overcome the trauma linked to the murder
, ”he explains to us.
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However, investigators from the Central Office for the Suppression of Violence (OCRV) took the trouble, in April 2021, to inspect the cemetery of Grimaud, in the Var, where the father of Xavier de Ligonnès had a house.
He was suspected of having committed suicide there.
“
It was simply a question of verifying a hypothesis.
Even if it is probably not the track that is favored today, it is important to close certain doors, in particular to refine the research
, ”continues this same source.
Achilles' heel
Has he gone abroad?
“
Nothing is excluded and it is a hypothesis.
Vigils have been set up in certain countries historically chosen by the fugitives as a place of retreat, where extradition is complicated
”, we are assured, indicating however that the investigators prefer, for the moment, to concentrate on the territory. national.
But the more time passes, the more the hope of one day finding Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès dwindles.
"
If he is alive, his face must have changed drastically with old age
", worries a policeman, adding that Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès was already nicknamed by the police as being "
the man with a thousand faces
": "
when he's shaved, he doesn't give off the same thing at all as when he isn't... So the work of the weather must have greatly complicated the task
”, he breathes.
But time can also prove to be an ally: "
it is possible that as he gets older he no longer feels really in danger or that being arrested no longer scares him.
“, He continues, explaining that, today, the investigators are betting on the Achilles heel of Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès – “
the family
”.
