On September 5, 2012, three members of a British family and a cyclist were killed with several bullets in the head. The custody is targeted, according to the Annecy Attorney, “to carry out time employment checks”.
Le Monde with AFP
The custody of the man interviewed since Wednesday morning in the survey of the quadruple murder of 2012 in Chevalina, in Haute-Savoie, was extended, announced the Annecy Prosecure in the night of Wednesday to Thursday 13 January.
The Annecy Attorney, Line Bonnet, has Tweeted late at night:
“#CHEVALINE The investigating judge has decided on the extension of the current custody during this morning [Wednesday] 8:05.”
[PRESS RELEASE]
Current custody in the so-called chevaline killing case since 8:05 this morning. Nou … https://t.co/hiwhfdotee
It had declared Wednesday morning that custody was aimed at “conducting such employment checks” and “searches” in that person, whose identity was not revealed.
In the face of some journalists who were waiting for him in front of Chambery Wednesday night, his lawyer, Jean-Christophe Basson-Larbi, simply stated that it was a witness put out of the way in 2015. According to The Council, its custody is “not justified”, for the latter has “always had to participate in the manifestation of the truth”.
“Reset”
Several newspapers, including The Dauphiné released , specify that the suspect interviewed is a biker that had been put out In 2015 after being sought for two years, but the Prosecure, contacted Thursday by the France-Presse agency, did not wish to confirm this information, calling again prudence in this file.
However, it confirmed that the man retained since Wednesday morning was among four witnesses “put back in situation” and timed on the basis of their statements on the scene of the drama a little over three months ago.
On September 5, 2012, a British of Iraqi origin of 50, Saad Al-Hilli, his wife, 47, and his mother-in-law, 74, had been found dead, with several bullets in the Head, in their car on a country road near Chevaline, not far from Lake Annecy.
One of the girls of the Al-Hilli couple had been seriously injured, while the second, curled up under his mother’s legs, was miraculously released unscathed from this killing. A cyclist of the region, Sylvain Mollier, 45, likely collateral victim, had also been shot.
This case includes among the great judicial puzzles that held France in breath of the last fifty years. It has already resulted in thousands of hours of investigation and auditions, tons of peeling documents and four arrests, without being able to be elucidated to date.