A new situation will be organized on Thursday in Ile-de-France to try to elucidate the quadruple murder committed in 2012 near Chevaline (Haute-Savoie), AFP learned on Monday from a source close to the case.
According to the same source, confirming information from RTL, the rehabilitation will take place on a disused air base.
Lawyers and people who will play roles have been summoned, but not witnesses to the killing, she adds.
The Nanterre public prosecutor’s office, contacted by AFP, responded that it did not wish to comment on future investigative actions.
‘We are delighted (…) with this new initiative on the part of investigating judge Sabine Kheris. We see this as a new encouraging example of his perseverance in this case,’ judge Colomba Grossi and William Bourdon, lawyers for members of the victims’ family, also contacted by AFP.
Cold case
On September 5, 2012, a 50-year-old British man of Iraqi origin, Saad al-Hilli, his 47-year-old wife and his 74-year-old mother-in-law were found dead in their car, shot several times in the head, on a country road near Chevaline, not far from Lake Annecy.
A cyclist from the region, Sylvain Mollier, 45, was also shot.
One of the al-Hilli couple’s little girls, aged 7, was seriously injured while the second, aged 4, curled up under her mother’s legs, escaped unscathed.
The national center responsible for unresolved cases (“cold cases”) based in Nanterre retrieved the file in September 2022 and is trying to elucidate this case with international repercussions.
In May, new DNA analyzes were requested by the investigating judges.
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