Cold case
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Almost a decade after the murders, a new police custody – a witness exonerated in 2015 – has been underway since Wednesday. The affair, which remains incomprehensible, still fascinates as much as the hopes of seeing it elucidated dwindle.
Each new twist, unspectacular though it is, ignites the press and the many fans of news items before inexorably ending up disappointing everyone. This Wednesday morning, a new police custody was announced by the prosecutor of the Republic of Annecy in the so-called Chevaline case, which fascinates so much it is incomprehensible. The man questioned is a witness exonerated in 2015 whose custody is not “Not justified”, denounced in front of journalists Jean-Christophe Basson-Larbi in front of the gendarmerie of Chambéry Wednesday evening. For almost ten years, all the leads of this investigation have led to dead ends. So much so that investigators nickname it the “yes but” case, the “yes but” case.
On September 5, 2012, shortly before 4 p.m., a cyclist and three members of an English family were murdered in a parking lot on the edge of a forest in the heart of Haute-Savoie, close to the town of Chevaline. A quadruple murder which, according to the investigation, would have taken place in a few minutes during which 21 bullets were fired, 17 of which were found in the bodies of the victims. It is a British cyclist, Brett Martin, who discovers and then reports the scene of the crime.
Four victims are to be deplored. Sylvain Mollier, French cyclist lived …