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malaise

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Tue Jun 24, 2014, 10:02 PM Jun 2014

A 1% murder- where is Dominic Dunn when we need him?

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/24/helene-pastor-investigation-further-arrests
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Police arrest suspects in Hélène Pastor assassination investigation
French police are holding 23 people, including Pastor's daughter, and believe they have identified the two killers

French police believe they have identified two men who shot and fatally injured a Monaco billionaire after discovering a suspect's DNA on hotel shower gel.

Hélène Pastor was ambushed by a gunman with a sawn-off shotgun in May as she left a hospital where she was visiting her son who had suffered a stroke.

Now officers are examining reported links between the suspected gunman and the dead woman's son-in-law, a Polish consular official based in Monaco and head of the local chamber of commerce.

Pastor, 77, who owned around a third of property in Monaco and was worth an estimated €19bn (£15bn), was attacked as her Lancia Voyager car pulled out of the Archet hospital in the west of Nice on 6 May.

Mohamed Darwich, 64, her chauffeur, was severely injured and died in hospital a few days later. Pastor, who had connections to the Monaco royal family, died of her injuries two weeks later.

At a press conference on Tuesday, Brice Robin, the prosecutor at Marseille overseeing the inquiry, said the two suspects had travelled to Nice from the Mediterranean port city and did not appear to be experienced professional killers.

He said 23 people were currently being held by police investigating the attack and detectives were examining money transactions from a bank account in the name of Wojciech Janowski, who is married to Pastor's daughter Sylvia and is Poland's honorary consul in Monaco.
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A 1% murder- where is Dominic Dunn when we need him? (Original Post) malaise Jun 2014 OP
Dominick dead, mon--has been so for some time now.... MADem Jun 2014 #1
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