The French investigators are notmore very farto solve the quadruple murder of Chevaline, in Haute-Savoie, in 2012, estimated the public prosecutor of Annecy, Line Bonnet, in an interview with the Tribune de Genève. “I think we are not very far away. We will succeed through scientific evidence“said the prosecutor in this interview published Thursday, February 17.
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On September 5, 2012, a 50-year-old Briton of Iraqi origin, Saad al-Hilli, his 47-year-old wife and his 74-year-old mother-in-law were found dead, with several bullets in the head, in their car on a mountain road near Chevaline, on the heights of Lake Annecy. One of the al-Hilli couple’s daughters was seriously injured while the second, curled up under her mother’s legs, emerged unscathed. A cyclist from the region, Sylvain Mollier, 45, a probable collateral victim, was shot dead during the shooting.
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Not a “cold case”
“For us, it’s not a “cold case” at all!“, these closed or neglected cases, insisted the prosecutor, who took up her post in September 2021. She specified that three investigators were working on this file full time. “They decided to start all over again, to check all the seals“, she explains, adding that”there are regular guards in this file, in order to close the doors one after the other“. In mid-January, a witness was taken into custody before being quickly released and exonerated.
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The prosecutor also explains her use of the social network Twitter to communicate, which is not yet so common in France. “It’s the only way to reach everyone, fairly“, she underlines. “But it is also to communicate information that is a little more positive. I’m exhausted from justice bashing“, the virulent criticism of justice, adds the prosecutor, listing initiatives to propose alternatives to legal proceedings, such as for example the writing of letters of apology in the event of degradation or contempt for first-time offenders or even internships of domestic violence awareness.