Gwladys Laffite, edited by Romain Rouillard
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10:08 a.m., July 28, 2022
On September 5, 2012 in Chevaline in Haute-Savoie, a walker discovered the lifeless body of a cyclist and three members of a British family of Iraqi origin in a forest car park. Ten years later, this unsolved case should be transmitted to the Cold Case center in Nanterre.
Are we finally going to shed light on one of the greatest mysteries of the legal sphere in recent years? Ten years ago, the lifeless bodies of four people killed by bullets were found by a walker in a forest car park in Chevaline in Haute-Savoie. Since then, the case has still not been elucidated and should be transmitted to the Cold Case center in Nanterre.
Specialized magistrates
Concretely, this means that the investigating judges of the Annecy court will no longer be responsible for this investigation. It would then be transmitted to magistrates specialized in this type of business, called “cold case”. This pole was created last March so that this type of old files can be looked at and instructed with a fresh eye.
These magistrates do not deal with any current case and focus only on these unsolved cases. Through this, justice hopes to see these judges raise the link or the clue, that the investigators who have been working on this massacre for years, perhaps no longer saw.
More scientific resources will also be made available. This pole is headed by the investigating judge who solved the Estelle Mouzin case and who had made the serial killer Michel Fourniret confess to the murder of the girl.
Several arrests
This affair of the Chevaline massacre, more than ten years old, is particularly complex. It is a legal enigma which has given rise to thousands of hours of investigation, carried out by the gendarmes hand in hand with the English police. A meticulous investigation that explored dozens of leads before dismissing them. Several arrests have taken place, including a former municipal police officer, a weapons collector, but also the man with the white motorcycle, half-suspect, half-witness, who was still in police custody last January. He was eventually cleared.
At present, there is no clear identification of the man who killed three members of the Al-Hilli family and a cyclist on September 5, 2012.