Quadruple murder in the French Alps in 2012

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The four-fold murder in the French Alps in 2012 saw the Iraqi couple from Great Britain Saad al-Hilli (50), his wife Iqbal al-Hilli (47), the mother of his wife Suhaila al-Allaf (74) and the passer-by Sylvain Mollier (45) to the victim. They were shot dead on September 5, 2012 in a forest car park near Chevaline about 7 km south of Lake Annecy . The background to the crime is still unclear and the killer has not been identified.

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The Iraqi-born couple from Great Britain and the wife's mother were vacationing in the French Alps . On September 5, 2012, Saad al-Hilli, his wife Iqbal, their mother and the French cyclist Sylvain Mollier were shot dead in a forest car park in Chevaline near the city of Annecy. The Al-Hillis' two young daughters were also shot at, but they survived. The bodies were found by a British ex-soldier who was cycling in the area.

Investigations

The authorities were certain from the start of the investigation that the murderer must have been a "professional". French media reported that it was a "hired professional killer". This is supported by the fact that three of the victims were killed with two headshots each. The murder weapon, a Luger P06 , is an old weapon. It was used by the Swiss Army and Police in the 1920s and 1930s. According to criminologists, this is not necessarily a common weapon for a “ professional killer ”.

Different tracks

After the murders, French and British investigators followed different leads. At first it looked as if the act was an inheritance dispute between Saad and his brother. The brother was arrested in the meantime, but in the end “no serious stress factors” could be found.

The investigators were also concerned with Saad's professional background. Saad worked in the aerospace industry. A brief suspected connection with possible industrial espionage was rejected.

In 2014, the French investigators found out that the murdered wife Iqbal al-Hilli had a secret ex-husband in the USA, James T., who was 13 years her senior, and that both had apparently married in secret. The two had a relationship between February 1999 and December 2000. Iqbal apparently had not told her family or her husband Saad, to whom she had been married since 2002, about this marriage. The French investigators were taken aback by the fact that T. died in an unexplained manner in the small town of Natchez (Mississippi) on the very day the Al-Hillis were shot in Annecy. Heart failure was given as the official cause of death .

Foreign Legionnaire Menegaldo

In 2015, almost three years after the quadruple murder, a book appeared that said a former French Foreign Legion soldier had been identified as a suspect. The man, Patrice Menegaldo, committed suicide in June 2014. He was questioned as a witness after the 2012 murders.

The investigators are interested in the routes that Menegaldo had covered. His profile apparently fits the profile of the murderer created by profilers exactly. With Menegaldo, the cyclist Mollier came back into focus. Patrice Menegaldo was initially considered an acquaintance of Mollier's partner. In 2016 it was announced that he had been in a relationship with the cyclist's sister for seven years. His possible motive, however, remained unclear.

literature

Tom Parry: The Perfect Crime . Mirror Books, 2015, ISBN 978-1-907324-59-8 (English).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Quadruple murder in Annecy remains unsolved . In: news.ORF.at . March 3, 2017 ( orf.at [accessed March 1, 2018]).
  2. ^ French Alps: Arrested after the quadruple murder in Annecy . In: The time . June 24, 2013, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed March 1, 2018]).
  3. ↑ Tom Parry: The Perfect Crime . Mirror Books, 2015, ISBN 978-1-907324-59-8 (English).
  4. ↑ Tom Parry: Suicide Foreign Legion soldier top of French Alps murders suspect list. In: Mirror. May 23, 2015, accessed on August 7, 2020 .
  5. ↑ DIE WELT: Foreign legionnaire is said to have wiped out family . In: THE WORLD . May 25, 2015 ( welt.de [accessed March 1, 2018]).

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