Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès - The great investigation

At the beginning of April 2011, a 50-year-old man disappeared without a trace, before the bodies of his wife, their four children and their two dogs were found buried under the terrace of their house in Nantes.Almost ten years later, the countless mysteries surrounding the “Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès affair” make it the most indecipherable and controversial French news story of the start of this millennium.This story, published in the summer of 2020 in two parts in Society magazine after four years of investigation, is the most detailed ever published on the case.Pierre Boisson, Maxime Chamoux, Sylvain Gouverneur and Thibault Raisse are journalists for Society magazine.