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Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès: this house in which he might have ended his life
In his book The Dupont de Ligonnès affair, published in 2018, journalist Guy Hugnet dwells on a house with a swimming pool, which would have housed the family and which might have been the place in which the murderer might have committed suicide.
It’s been eleven years since Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès cannot be found, since he brutally took the life of his wife, Agnès, and their four children (Benoit, Anne, Thomas and Arthur). On this sad anniversary, Gala plunged back into the book by journalist Guy Hugnet, published in March 2018, and retracing this painful affair. In his work, The Dupont de Ligonnès affair, this specialist in criminal investigations is interested in a housein which the murderer and father might have wanted suicide.
Indeed, investigators have already put on the track of a dwelling to which Agnès was referring in a letter and in which the family had stayed, regarding fifteen days to two months, possibly during the vacation period. Collected by the police, this letter was probably addressing his sister-in-law. In it, the wife of Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès apologized for not being able to receive the children there, as planned of his interlocutor. The reason ? The local swimming pool “not sure”. The house in question would be located in Roquebrune-sur-Argens, in the Var, and it would seem that the couple went there in the early 1990s, to rest, or even in “the intention to settle there, before giving up”, as the author of the book explains. When investigators discovered the letter written by Agnès, they did not hesitate to take this lead seriously by trying to find this famous accommodation with an unsecured swimming pool.
A dregs that might have been the “final destination” of Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès
Unfortunately, despite their research “with taxes, the town hall and the post office” of the Var municipality, no matching house was found. However, it might be located in the hamlet of La Bouverie since there are many houses with swimming pools. At any rate, it might be that Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès decided to “end those days” nearby falling back on “a final destination chosen for intimate and deep emotional reasons, known only to him”. Excavations had, in any case, “been organized in caves located north of La Bouverie”, but these had given nothing. The mystery still remains whole, more than ten years following the revelation of this case that had upset the French.
Article written with the collaboration of 6Medias
