How could a retiree from Renault, living between Limay (Yvelines) and Scotland, have been confused for almost 24 hours with Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès, this father suspected of having killed his wife and their four children in April 2011 in Nantes, and missing since?
Guy Joao, the French retiree of Portuguese origin from the Yvelines who had been wrongly suspected of being Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès, almost three months ago, tells for the first time, with an uncovered face, this extraordinary story in an interview with M6. This story will be broadcast this Friday in the newspapers of the channel.
Arrested in Glasgow on October 11, 2019, Guy Joao was "wrongly taken for the most wanted man in France, Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès, suspected of having killed his wife and four children in Nantes in April 2011", recalls the chain in a statement. "Kept in custody, interrogated and put in total isolation for 26 hours, Guy Joao will experience a real nightmare before his genetic fingerprints exonerate him," she adds.
He and his wife still very marked
Three months after the facts, Guy Joao, who had already given his testimony in our columns at the end of December but who had so far refused to speak face to camera, granted his first television interview with an uncovered face to M6, who will broadcast it in “12:45 pm” and “7:45 pm”, as well as on its sites, platforms and social networks.
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Guy Joao, the man who was wrongly mistaken for Xavier Dupont from Ligonnès in Scotland, gives himself up, for the 1st time, in front of the cameras of @fvignolle and @cdardelin in # 12:45 and # 19:45 of this day. pic.twitter.com/bSjCvNZO5c
This interview, filmed Monday and Tuesday in Limay (Yvelines), where he lives, lasted a total of 1:30, and the retiree speaks there alongside his Irish wife, Mhari, also very marked by this affair.
"A dull anger over his arrest, a nightmare"
"Physically, compared to the photo which had been published at the time in the press, it is not any more the same man, it tells us that its nights are still made of insomnia", told AFP the journalist of M6 François Vignolle, who carried out this interview, fruit of a long investigation and multiple contacts with Guy Joao.
"He tipped over to the other side of the mirror at one point, without knowing why he was being called out, and he was very shot in the first days and weeks. He tries to step back, but he tells us that he keeps a dull anger over his arrest, a nightmare, ”he says.
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But it is "a combative man, and who got out thanks to his wife Mhari", herself "a collateral victim" in this story, he concludes.
