"I have a lot of trouble imagining him alive": Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès as seen by psychiatrist Daniel Zagury
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Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès is seen on surveillance camera footage withdrawing money on May 11, 2011 in Roquebrune-sur-Argens (Var). THOMAS COEX/AFP
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Story The famous psychiatrist and expert witness in the courts, Daniel Zagury, delivers, in "Public Enigma No. 1, Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès" (Seuil), his specialist analysis of the trajectory of the man, still presumed innocent, who allegedly decimated his family in April 2011 and whose "psychological work" that allegedly led him to the tragedy, he describes.
It's France's most famous cold case, the enigma of a broadly smiling 50-year-old man who allegedly meticulously murdered his wife and four children before covering his tracks and vanishing into thin air fourteen years ago. Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès remains presumed innocent, seemingly for all eternity. How can anyone plan to kill their own loved ones, those who are supposed to be most precious to them?
Faced with this dizzying enigma for the common man, the psychiatrist Daniel Zagury, known for having examined a dozen major criminals (including Guy Georges and Michel Fourniret ), in the absence of being able to meet the object of his attention (and so much the worse for the "ethical prohibition" , the psychiatrist acknowledges), decided to make an exception to his practice by analyzing suspect number 1 from his writings (numerous emails and exchanges on d…
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