Folder of the “Chevaline Massacre”, quadruple unsolved homicide since 2012it is now officially in the hands of the new “cold cases” center in Nanterre.
“The two investigating magistrates from Annecy Cosaisis accepted the request and ordered the transmission of the investigation file to the investigating magistrates of Nanterre”, the Annecy prosecutor said in a statement on Friday. as reported by our colleagues from Delfina Free.
This decision “was motivated by the human resources specifically dedicated to the new pole” created in March, the Annecy prosecutor states, which confirms that “the research section of Chambéry remains in charge of continuing the investigations, now under the control of the Nanterre magistrates investigation. “.
This new center allows the many unsolved cases “to remain in legal life and to offer a response to the victims”, indicated the Ministry of Justice.
Ten years of mystery
On 5 September 2012, a 50-year-old Briton of Iraqi descent, Saad al-Hilli, his 47-year-old wife and 74-year-old mother-in-law were found dead in their car, with several bullets in their heads, on a nearby country road. in Chevaline, not far from Lake Annecy.
One of the al-Hilli couple’s daughters was seriously injured while the second, curled up under her mother’s legs, miraculously came out unscathed. A cyclist from the region, Sylvain Mollier, 45, a probable collateral victim, was also shot dead. Legal enigma, the Chevaline affair has already given rise to thousands of hours of investigations and hearings, tons of documents leafed through and four arrests, without revealing the mystery.
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