Will his testimony assist advance an investigation that is still as enigmatic as ever? Fifteen years later the disappearance of Xavier Dupont of Ligonnèssuspected of getting murdered his spouse and 4 youngsters in Nantes in April 2011, an alleged priest claimed Tuesday night to have collected the fugitive’s confession in 2022 in his monastery in Aude.
“He was distraught and in a depressed state,” Father Marc mentioned on the finish. from the show Call for witnesses on M6which promised as a teaser to disclose “potential proof of current life. » Relaunched by Julien Courbet on his 100% certainty of getting acknowledged Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès, the person of the Church responded within the affirmative. “Sure after all, the confession says rather a lot,” assured the witness, including that the fugitive, “wearing a easy outfit, denims and a checked shirt”, would then have confessed his crimes to him.
He would have a photograph and XDDL’s telephone quantity
In accordance with this priest, Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès would have stayed 4 days within the monastery earlier than then leaving for a small village within the Alpes-Maritimes close to Grasse. On the air, this mysterious man of the Church additionally claimed to be in possession of a phone quantity and {a photograph} of XDDL however with none of those parts being broadcast by M6.
He lastly explains that he determined to disclose this confession, and due to this fact to betray his secret, after having spoken about it with the Bishop of Carcassonne who would have given him his settlement. “I used to be conscious of the printed of the present and it was the time to denounce all that,” he justified. We denounce every part at the moment inside the Church, we additionally denounce the rapes that occur amongst us inside our parishes. »
“A deceptive sequence”, in line with the bishop
In a video published this Wednesday morning on Fb, Monsignor Bruno Valentin, bishop of the diocese of Narbonne and Carcassonne, denied these revelations. “Nobody has ever contacted me concerning the matter talked about, neither the one who spoke, nor even M6, earlier than broadcasting such feedback,” he says. I due to this fact deplore this lack of rigor and professionalism which resulted on this deceptive sequence for the general public. »
The Dupont de Ligonnès affair arouses many fantasies and has given rise to tons of of experiences around the globe. Since his disappearance, info or witnesses claiming to have noticed the fugitive in numerous locations have arisen recurrently, with out ever being verified.
