Where did Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès go? Is he dead ? Is he alive? In April 2011, his wife Agnès and their four children (Benoît, Thomas, Arthur, Anne) were found dead from a bullet to the head under the house at 55, boulevard Schuman, in Nantes. The father of the family has since disappeared. In its issue of July 23, 2020, Society the terrible news item returns nine years after the tragedy.
In addition to retracing the run of the one who allegedly killed his relatives, the magazine reveals the interrogation of Emmanuel Teneur, the best friend of Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès, to investigators from the PJ of Nantes. “For almost four hours”, the man says "The story that binds him" to XDDL “For 37 years”. According to him, the one who escaped all the police had no weapon except “His father's rifle” that he recovered “After his death” a few months before the tragedy.
Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès would have sent letters to his best friend
The weapon, XDDL would only have "Shown to the shooting center instructor", but Emmanuel Teneur claims to have never seen it work. In the process, he adds that he cannot remember the last time they saw his friend, “But he is certain that he has not been in contact with him since April 1”, report our colleagues. However, Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès would have sent him two letters on April 9 of the same year. In the first, he tells her that his family had to leave urgently for the United States. In the second, he wrote to her: “Stay there until my return: I need you ”, report Society.
As he read these words, his friend says he visited the house of horror. By discovering it "empty", he “Be afraid”And prefers to leave. As he signs his statement at 6:40 p.m. before returning home, "The investigators read again the statements of Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès' best friend" and include "Let him lie to them", reveals the magazine. For the moment, no details on the involvement of Emmanuel Teneur in the case called "The Nantes killing" was not brought. Case to be followed from August 6, 2020, in the second part of the survey carried out by Society.
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