A man arrested at Glasgow Airport is not a French fugitive suspected of murdering his family, according to French police.

Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès has been on the run from Naples since 2011, when his wife and four children were killed in April of that year.

Sources in Paris claim the 58-year-old landed in Glasgow International Airport yesterday after boarding an easyJet flight from Charles de Gaulle Airport.

Police were unable to apprehend him in time, and alerted Scottish officers who then arrested him.

Now, reports from France have claimed DNA results prove the man arrested is not the businessman.

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A French police spokesman told the Associated Press that French and Scottish investigators determined that the fingerprints from the man detained do not match.

A French police spokesman said that French and Scottish investigators determined that the fingerprints of the man detained do not match those of the missing suspect.

The de Ligonnes family disappeared in April 2011. Police later discovered five bodies with gunshot wounds buried outside their home in the western city of Nantes.

Xavier Dupont de Ligonnes was the only family member never found, and became the chief suspect. French police have been searching for him ever since.