Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès, a Frenchman who is suspected to have killed his entire family in 2011 and has been on the run since, was arrested in Glasgow on Friday, according to police sources, reports Euronews.
Dupont de Ligonnès had disembarked from a flight from Paris' Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport, AFP reported.
Dupont de Ligonnès, 58, had been noticed by the police at Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle, but the police did not have time to act before the flight's boarding and instead warned Interpol, according to AFP.
He was wanted in France for the murder of his wife Agnès, 48, and his children, Arthur, 21, Thomas, 18, Anne, 16, and Benoît, 13, whose bodies, as well as those of the family's two dogs, had been discovered buried in the garden of the family house in Nantes, on April 21st 2011.
He was travelling under a false name, but his fingerprints betrayed him. He opposed 'no resistance' to his arrest, according to French newspaper Le Parisien, which broke the news.
The murders, known as the "Nantes slaughter", shocked France at the time. Dupont de Ligonnès had disappeared before his family's bodies were found, and the murders had never been solved.