Arrest made in 2012 French Alps shootings
Source: CNN
French police on Tuesday arrested a man in connection with an investigation into the mysterious 2012 slayings of a British-Iraqi family and a Frenchman in the foothills of the French Alps, a local prosecutor's office said.
The man, identified only as a 48-year-old living in eastern France's Alpine Haute-Savoie area, was arrested Tuesday morning in part because of information police gleaned after they released a sketch of a biker that had spotted near the crime scene, the office of Annecy Prosecutor Eric Maillaud said.
Authorities declined to release the man's name, citing "the lack of a direct connection" between the man and the victims, and a presumption of innocence.
The bodies of British-Iraqi man Saad al-Hilli, his wife Ikbal and her mother, Suhaila al-Allaf, were found in a car in a secluded parking lot on the outskirts of Chevaline, an Alpine village near the picturesque Lake Annecy, in September 2012. French cyclist Sylvain Mollet was found shot dead close by.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/18/world/europe/france-alps-deaths/
JustAnotherGen
(31,828 posts)This was going to go ice cold.
Capt. Obvious
(9,002 posts)MicaelS
(8,747 posts)This case was a headscratcher for me.
Ghost Dog
(16,881 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,320 posts)...
But he is still being investigated for alleged arms trafficking involvement.
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"The searches and interviews of the last three days have not enabled us to establish a direct link between the events of 5 September 2012 and this man, a war weapons enthusiast, who looked very like the e-fit released on 4 November 2013 and who was near to the place where the incident took place when it happened," he said.
"However, the man will be taken into custody, overseen by the public prosecutor's office in Annecy, in connection with illicit trading in wartime weapons and ammunition found during searches by investigators, this illicit activity being carried out as part of an organised gang."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26290147