¤ Tuerie de Chevaline 5/09/2012 (Haute-Savoie) : 30 secondes de tirs, plusieurs tueurs expérimentés, plusieurs véhicules, M. Saad Al Hilli travaillait pour une filiale d’Astrium et avait été surveillé par les renseignements britanniques en 2003
‘Executed in 30 seconds’: British family shot dead in French Alps hit by two bullets each in ‘professional hit’
New details strengthen theory that Saad Al-Hilli and his family were victims of contract killers, say cops
The British family gunned down in the French Alps were executed in just 30 seconds – with each of them being shot twice.
Detectives revealed that Saad Al-Hilli, his wife Iqbal, and her 77-year-old mother were hit by two bullets each – while a cyclist who stumbled across the scene of the carnage was hit five times.
The fact that intense gunfire was heard for less than 30 seconds – and it was so brutally effective – strengthens the theory of experienced hit-men being responsible.
British engineer Engineer Mr Al-Hilli, 50, was initially shot once in the forehead as he sat at the wheel of the BMW estate car he had used to drive his family to a caravan holiday to Lake Annecy, in eastern France.
Then a second ‘coup de grace’ bullet was apparently used to make sure that Mr Al-Hilli, of Clayton, Surrey, was indeed dead.
This is the classic modus operandi of gunmen the world over who are contracted to kill people, whether working for criminal gangs, terrorist groups, or security services.
Sylvain Mollier, a 45-year-old father of three who arrived at the scene by bike, is likely to have disturbed the multiple killings, and thus would have made a more difficult target.
An investigating source confirmed to French media that all those in the car « received two bullets each », while Mr Mollier « was hit five times ». (more…)