5 killed by Gun in British-registered car in French Alps

[arista]

3 Dead British
from SkyNewsHD.
http://news.sky.com/story/981353/three-shot-dead-in-british-bmw-in-french-alps

"Breaking News: Five people dead, including young girl, after shooting in British-registered car in French Alps
Three of the corpses were in a car parked in a forest lay-by in hills next to Lake Annecy
Badly wounded young girl, was also found in the 4x4, but later died of her injuries
Male cyclist found dead nearby with gunshot wounds"


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2198777/BREAKING-NEWS-Five-people-dead-including-young-girl-shooting-British-registered-car-French-Alps.html#ixzz25cUY4GDz



Was this a Evil Robbery
or something else?

[Kazanne]

On the news now a 4 year old girl found alive hiding underneath the body of her mom,poor little mite.

[fruit_cake]

it's starting look like an assassination more than a random killing spree. The dead cyclist was trying to help according to the DM

[Kizzy]

Just read this, the little girl was 'scared frozen' poor little thing :(
I think there is to be an announcement at 1pm in relation to it according to the Guardian.

[arista]

Yes frozen under a dead body
seem to save her life.
Unable to speak in full shock, but alive.

SkyNewsHD
has found out the Car Park is known for crime.
"People have gone back to cars and they have been broken into"
a local told SkyNewsHD Robert Nisbet reporter

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[Niamh.]

Poor girl, she has a tough road ahead, I hope she has other family to look after her

[arista]

"France shooting: Father named as Saad Al-Hilli
Police named Saad Al-Hilli as the father shot dead in France, where a family including two young girls was attacked. "

[lostalex]

France really needs to look at their gun laws.


(i know everyone was waiting for me to say it, so i succumbed to peer pressure)

[arista]

I wonder if this was Racial?


Her father, found slumped in the front of the car,
was named as Saad Al-Hilli, 50, from Claygate, Surrey.
He was born in Baghdad, Iraq.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/9524537/France-shooting-Father-named-as-Saad-Al-Hilli.html

[Omah]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19506853


Three of four victims of a shooting in a car in the French Alps were shot in the head, a French prosecutor has said.

One man, named by news agencies as Saad al-Hilli, from Surrey, an elderly woman and a French cyclist were shot in the head. Post-mortem examinations are being carried out.

A British cyclist, an ex-RAF officer, discovered the scene near Lake Annecy.

A second woman was also killed. A girl, four, hid in the car for eight hours before being found by police.

Annecy prosecutor Eric Maillaud said they were not looking for any more survivors.

"It was clearly an act of extreme savagery and it was obvious that who did this wanted to kill," he said.

The motive for the attack remains a mystery, he added.

Another girl, found shot outside the car, has been transferred to a hospital in the city of Grenoble where she has been placed in a medially-induced coma.

The girl - thought to be seven or eight years old - was shot three times, including in the shoulder, and had head fractures. "She suffered a violent attack," Mr Maillaud said.

:eek:

[GypsyGoth]

I heard about this today. It seems really odd :sad:

[arista]

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"Bullet-ridden: Police gather evidence from the
BMW estate where Saad Al-Hilli
and his family was massacred
by a suspected assassin in the French Alps"

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2198777/Lake-Annecy-shooting-Manhunt-assassin-shot-Surrey-businessman-grandmother.html#ixzz25jY1MW7K

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[Niamh.]

I heard on the radio today that Police suspect there was a family fued and a family member might have hired the killer :shocked:

[Kazanne]

I heard on the radio today that Police suspect there was a family fued and a family member might have hired the killer :shocked:

Terribly sad story ,I hope the kids recover and have someone good to care for them,and off topic Niamh,what is Brian blessed doing on your siggie????:hugesmile:

[Niamh.]

Terribly sad story ,I hope the kids recover and have someone good to care for them,and off topic Niamh,what is Brian blessed doing on your siggie????:hugesmile:

He sneaked in there in the middle of the night, I believe he had some help from Nathan :suspect:

[Kazanne]

He sneaked in there in the middle of the night, I believe he had some help from Nathan :suspect:

:joker::joker:some right comedians on here:hugesmile:

[Gillian-73]

So sad. That poor little girl, it's heartbreaking!

[arista]

I heard on the radio today that Police suspect there was a family fued and a family member might have hired the killer :shocked:


Yes could be a Big Money Loan not paid

[Omah]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19524231

The brother of Alps shooting victim Saad al-Hilli has told UK police there was no dispute over "financial matters", French prosecutors have said.

Prosecutor Eric Maillaud said French officers would interview Mr al-Hilli's brother in the UK as a "witness".

He formally confirmed Mr al-Hilli and his wife were among four people fatally shot near Lake Annecy on Wednesday.

And he said the British cyclist who reported the crime had seen a dark four-wheel drive vehicle heading away.

The prosecutor said four-year-old Zeena al-Hilli had told French police about the shooting that killed her mother and father during their holiday in the Alps.

Speaking to a press conference on Friday, Mr Maillaud said the brother of Iraqi-born Mr al-Hilli, 50, went to the police after he heard media reports of the deaths - first to ask about al-Hilli's condition, and then, on Friday, to deny reports of a dispute with his brother.

However, he said Mr al-Hilli's brother had not yet been formally questioned. Police were still in the process of gathering information about Mr al-Hilli, the prosecutor added.

The final confirmation of the victims' names came from the al-Hilli's four-year-old daughter. When police officers asked her what she could remember, she told them she had been in the car "with Mummy and Daddy".

Autopsies have been completed on those who died, the police have said, and the manner of death was the same for all: multiple gunshot wounds, each had at least one bullet wound to the head.

But police remain in the dark about who may have carried out the killings.

Four-year-old Zeena doesn't seem to have seen anything significant, and investigators are now pinning their hopes on her older sister, Zainab.

Just seven years old, she sustained serious injuries in the attack, and is in a medically induced coma.

Doctors don't know when she will be well enough to be questioned, but she is the only witness to a crime police are desperate to solve.

Until they do, a person, or persons, capable of committing what the police say was extreme violence, remains at liberty.

On Friday, French police said they had heard possible reports of a family dispute about money.

Where had they heard them? And what were these "possible reports"?

Were they just gossip, rumour and speculation?

[arista]

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[arista]

Just Reported on SkyNewsHD Live

The French Police who do not like all the Press
still have to say was the Killing the French Man on the Bike
and that family were next to it - so had to be killed ?
or is it the man on the bike who was next to the
killing of the Iraqi and his family.

[Sticks]

Have they considered that the cyclist was the target and the family collateral damage?

[arista]

Have they considered that the cyclist was the target and the family collateral damage?

Yes Sticks
the French Police have not ruled anything out
but also will not talk of this a angle at this time.

[fruit_cake]

It seems unlikely to me that the cyclist was the target. They could have just shot him when the family was not there though, like when he'd cycled a bit further or something.

[arista]

It seems unlikely to me that the cyclist was the target. They could have just shot him when the family was not there though, like when he'd cycled a bit further or something.


If that was true
the Police should say so.

[Omah]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19547898

Only one gun was used in the attack on a British man shot dead with his wife, mother-in-law and a cyclist in the French Alps, police in France say.

Officials told reporters in Annecy that ballistics tests found 25 spent cartridges left at the scene came from a 7.65mm calibre semi-automatic pistol.

[fruit_cake]

it doesn't sound like there were two assassins then