after 10 years of mystery, the point on the investigation, to review in the news of France 3 Alpes
Ten years later, the Chevaline massacre remains a mystery. On September 5, 2012, an unknown person killed three members of the same family and a cyclist on a mountain road in Haute-Savoie. No lead has so far come to fruition. To be seen again in the 19/20 of France 3 Alpes.
On September 5, 2012, three members of a British family of Iraqi origin were killed not far from Lake Annecy, in Chevaline, Haute-Savoie. A Savoyard cyclist, Sylvain Mollier, probable collateral victim, was also killed.
William Brett Martin, an English holidaymaker who was on a mountain bike ride, was the first to discover the crime scene in the Martinet car park, at the end of the road to the Combe d’Ire. He says he sees a little girl seriously injured in the shoulder and head not far from the family car. On the other side lies the body of Sylvain Mollier. “It looked like a Hollywood movie. If someone had said ‘cut’ and everyone had stood up, it wouldn’t have surprised me”remembers the witness.
The bodies of Saad Al-Hilli, 50, his wife Iqbal and his mother-in-law, Suhaila Al-Allaf, a 74-year-old Swedish woman of Iraqi origin, were discovered inside the family vehicle, hit by several bullets. Only two girls miraculously survived the massacre.
Their hearings by French and British investigators – until the last 2 years ago – have still not shed light on a case that has given rise to all the hypotheses. From the family quarrel over a rich heritage to espionage linked to Saad Al-Hilli’s aerospace activities, including a serial killer from Savoy. Despite thousands of procedural acts, the mobilization of a hundred French and British investigators, it is clear that the investigation has still not been successful.
The case of the Chevaline killings could join the pole “cold cases” of Nanterre, a court specializing in unsolved crimes. The Annecy prosecutor requested the relinquishment of the local judge with a view to its transmission to the new judicial pole. This special unit was created last March at the instigation of the former attorney general at the Grenoble Court of Appeal, Jacques Dallest. The Chevaline affair meets several criteria to be studied by this new pole, according to the former magistrate.
The trial of the Nice attack, which killed 86 people on the Promenade des Anglais on July 14, 2016, opened on Monday afternoon in Paris. Seven men and a woman will be tried for this attack claimed by the Islamic State group, the deadliest committed on French soil after those of November 13, 2015. A trial eagerly awaited by the civil parties. Among them, Stéphane Erbs who lost his wife that evening, originally from Isère.
A novelty in this back to school in Grenoble schools: automatically vegetarian menus for students. It is up to the families to ask if they would like meat or fish to be added.
In Saint-André-le-Gaz, in Isère, the Evira company sorts surplus textiles from Emmaüs stores located in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. For good reason, only 15 % of clothes donated to the association are actually sold. And it is people in a situation of integration who are responsible for sorting them.
Takeover, is the title of Gilles Perret’s next film. The Haute-Savoie director is directing, after numerous documentaries, his first fiction which will be released in theaters next October. This is a social comedy filmed in the Arve valley, in a bar turning factory.
Aboriginal culture, mysterious, bewitching, can be discovered in the Grenoble art gallery Le vent des cimes. You will discover flamboyant canvases with enigmatic motifs, made by Aborigines who live in the great Australian desert.