How could Guy Joao, a peaceful pensioner living between Limay (Yvelines) and Scotland, be confused with Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès, this father suspected of having massacred his wife and their four children in 2011 in Nantes? To get answers to this question, Guy Joao asked his lawyer to file a complaint in Scotland in the coming weeks, he told FranceInfo.
This terrible mistake had earned the retiree from Renault an extraordinary arrest at Glasgow airport on October 11, followed by police custody for 26 hours. For nothing. At the start of the year, Guy Joao met with the Scottish police. "There were no excuses, only justifications," he lamented to FranceInfo.
"I have no enemy"
While the first doubts about the identity of the police custody had begun to emerge on the evening of his arrest, Guy Joao was not released until the following evening. Why such a long custody? What happened with his fingerprints, initially announced as being consistent with those of Dupont de Ligonnès?
Another question to which he requests an answer: has the report incriminating him been dealt with in a "reasonable" manner? "I have no enemy," says the retiree, who would like to know who implicated him.
Will he possibly file a complaint in France, to demand accountability from the French police? Or the media that had relayed the false information? His lawyer does not exclude this hypothesis, pending the results of the investigation entrusted to the IGPN for "violation of the secrecy of the investigation".