The interview with a childhood friend of Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès in Point de vue brought to light the affair which fascinates the France since many years. It was in 2011 that the corpses of 5 people are found in Nantes: the four children of Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès and his wife Agnès. It misses the father who seemed to be an ordinary person.
The secrets of Bruno de Stabenrath
Bruno de Stabenrath, author of the book L’Ami impossible, gave himself over to this man with whom he shared good times and who is accused of the worst. He talks regarding his family like his mother and his sister, two women in profile surprising.
Close to Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès whom he met at high school in Versailles, Bruno de Stabenrath knew the whole family, and the influence of his mother Geneviève, head of a prayer group, Philadelphiaconsidered a sect: I did not identify as a sect. In our Catholic circles, the visions, the voices, we’re used to it. »
For him, there were two Xaviers, his mother’s friend and son. He talks regarding the maternal regimentation he suffered in addition to all that collapsed around him: his financial worries, the death of his father and the infidelity of his wife.
Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès: Philadelphia, an apocalyptic sect
In the family of Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès, there is his sister, Christine, who took over as head of the church group Philadelphia. It is an extremist structure. Geneviève and Christine Dupont de Ligonnès were targeted by this investigation by the Versailles prosecutor’s office, in 2019, for ” abuse of weakness in a state of psychological subjection aimed at a movement of Catholic inspiration, traditionalist, radical and apocalyptic “. In 2011, Miviludes had already received reports on Philadelphia, signaling the risk of sectarian aberrations. The association of victims of sects, Unadfi, indicated a ” delusional doctrine« .
In Alsace, two brothers, whose mother died, suspect the sectarian group to have relieved their parents, whom they estimated under the influence of Philadelphia for a long time, of 250,000. For Stéphane Goldenstein, lawyer for Geneviève and Christine Dupont de Ligonnès, it is not a question of sect and abuse of weakness but of a family conflict between the two brothers and their father.
In 2022, the lawyer had spoken of the hypotheses of those he defends concerning the disappeared: “ Christine is not only convinced that her brother is alive but she is convinced that we do not know the reality of the material technical findings. »
For Bruno de Stabenrath, “ Seven years ago he was seen in the United States…I’m sure he’s still there. Xavier can bounce back. He left with a lot of money, emptying his wife’s accounts. He’s smart, attractive. He speaks English and Spanish, he can teach of French and mathematics, to seduce a woman… ».
