The Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès affair continues to fascinate the whole of France. Lately, many revelations have been made about the man who killed his wife and children in 2011 who is still wanted today.
The Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès case is once again in the spotlight. Society had published a major investigation into the father of a family behind the murder of his wife and three children. This Thursday, August 6, the magazine made available the second part of its investigation, revealing many things that surround this case. Dupont de Ligonnès' flight, his disappearance, his psychological profile and the people around him who were suspected of being complicit in this atrocity … Here are the new grumbling revelations about Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès.
Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès would have grown up in a sect
On the occasion of an interview with Planet.fr, Guy Hugnet, author of the book The Dupont de Ligonnès affair: the sect and the murderer, explained that the murderer had grown up within a sect. He returned to the fact that the four bodies found under the terrace of the family house carried religious figurines with them, which the first part of the investigation signed by Society also evokes. Guy Hugnet explains: "Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès grew up in a real sect: the Church of Philadelphia, also called 'The Garden.' (…) Geneviève de Ligonnès, Xavier's mother comes from a very pious bourgeois family who lived in anticipation of an imminent apocalypse. The family traveled to the places of apparitions of the Virgin in Brittany or elsewhere and were also interested in the visions of some mystics. " The interministerial mission of vigilance and the fight against sectarian aberrations, Miviludes, considers that it is "of a mystical prayer group with sectarian drifts."
He did not kill all of his family on the same day
Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès leaves the house for good on April 10
On the night of April 3 to 4, 2011, Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès sat down his wife and three children Arthur, Anne and Benoît. It is only much later that he will assassinate his other son Thomas. On April 4, Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès invited his son to eat at the restaurant Le Cavier, in Avrullé, near Angers. After that, he offers his son to come to the family home, claiming that the young man's mother has been hospitalized. On the night of April 5-6, he murders Thomas and buries him under the terrace with the other members of the family. Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès leaves the house definitively on April 10 only.
Emmanuel Teneur, the best friend of Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès, was suspected of being an accomplice
Some testimonies from Emmanuel Teneur did not seem to hold up, according to the police. First, the best friend of Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès failed to specify that the murderer had never used a weapon. The rifle that XDDL uses at the firing center they both went to together has already been used outside these walls: "Xavier used this weapon at his home to shoot a balloon he had placed on a sledge in his garden. It was equipped with a silencer to avoid making noise and disturbing his neighbors" he explains to investigators. Statements which are completely contradictory compared to his previous depositions on the subject of the disappearance of Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès. According to the magazine Society, the police then had doubts about the innocence of Emmanuel Teneur in this affair before realizing that, all his life, the latter was the victim of the manipulation of his best friend who disappeared. And that's not the only lie that Teneur told during the investigation. But if Emmanuel seems to have had questionable words, nothing ultimately incriminates him in this case. What emerges from it is above all the handling but also all the love and admiration he had for his best friend, with whom he was in love.
Investigators suspected Michel Rétif of having had an appointment with Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès after the murders
Michel Rétif, one of Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès' close friends, would have been the only one to have had a telephone conversation with him after the assassinations. If Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès often turned off his cell phone after the massacre, he turned it on from time to time. His relatives tried to call him, in vain, but all fell on his mail. This is the case for all except one: Michel Rétif. When the latter calls him, Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès picks up. They stay on the phone for 24 minutes. When Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès fled and left the family home for good, the investigators found that he and Michel Rétif found themselves not far from each other. Indeed, Michel Rétif begins a mysterious trip on April 13, 14 and 15 in the Var. Between April 13 and 15, their respective movements are increasingly closer geographically. Coincidence? The investigators have a doubt. On April 15, they are each in their hotels 13 km away. Would they have met during these three mysterious days of travel?
During his questioning, Michel Rétif denies having met Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès after the murders. He remains vague in his words while the police are aware that he is lying during some of his statements. Subsequently, the investigators discovered old messages between Michel Rétif, Xavier Dupont de Moretti … and his wife Agnès Hodanger. While entering a sulphurous electronic relationship with Michel Rétif, Xavier Dupont de Moretti offers his wife and his friend to maintain a three-way relationship. This relationship will be entirely controlled by the future murderer who even takes stock of their antics by mail, writes sext, films their antics and asks to be in copy of all the sms and emails that his wife and Michel Rétif send.
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