Anyone been to Annecy

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Panorama programme this Monday. BBC One - Panorama, Murder in the Alps

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Industrial espionage is now regarded as one of three possible explanations for the the Al-Hilli killings in the French Alps a year ago this week.
French investigators today put forward for the first time the possibility that Saad Al-Hilli, a satellite engineer, might have been the target of an assassination by a “state agency” connected with technological spying. well that's a surprise.

Al-Hilli killings: One year on, mystery surrounds the quadruple murder in the Alps - Europe - World - The Independent

 

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Zaid al-Hilli has been released from his bail as there is not sufficient evidence to proceed!

BBC News - Alps murders: No further action against Zaid al-Hilli

 

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Former French policeman arrested in neighbourhood village. Allegedly the mystery motor cyclist seen near the scene. Identified by several witnesses by his unusual helmet.
BBC News - Al-Hilli murders: Man arrested in Alps probe

translation from francetv
Updated 18.02.2014 | 4:50 p.m. , published on 02.18.2014 | 10:55
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This is the first arrest to occur in France in the sensational case of killing of Chevaline . A year and a half after the fact, a suspect was taken into custody Tuesday, February 18 , in Haute-Savoie, in the investigation of the quadruple murder . Qualified as " major step forward " by a source close to the inquiry . Explanations.
A former municipal police officer " amateur weapons "

This man was arrested by the GIGN , Tuesday morning around 10 am at his home , located a dozen kilometers away from the drama in a small subdivision of Perroix , a hamlet in the town of Talloires, away from Lake Annecy, France 3 reported Alps.
Aged 48 , he is described by investigators as a " taciturn mountaineer ", " amateur weapons " and collector. It would be married but live as a hermit , as " marginal ." According to information from France 3, the man would not have a criminal record.
France 3 Alpes also says that it would be a former municipal police officer of the municipality of Menthon -Saint- Bernard . It would have been " thanked fault " in October 2013. Forced to leave the accommodation made ​​available by the municipality, it would be installed in Talloires . Since then, he would have found an activity as a " security officer in Geneva ."
After his arrest , several searches were conducted . According to a source close to the case , a first search took place in the village of Latheron in the morning. It was followed by a second search in the afternoon , the home of the suspect . Constables criminal identification surveyed the garden of the house, using a metal detector . They dug the earth around a grove of trees. In other places , they had planted numbers to mark the field."A strong resemblance " with the sketch
The police were on the trail of the suspect with the evidence collected after the release of sketch outline of a biker near the crime scene, September 5, 2012 . A man with a goatee, wearing a motorcycle helmet with side opening , actively sought by investigators.
Since the release of this sketch , November 4, 2013 , the police received hundreds of calls, including forty "seemed to provide useful elements ," said Eric Maillaud , the prosecutor in Annecy.
According to the prosecutor , the suspect has a "strong resemblance " with this sketch . The judge did not say more about his identity to "preserve the presumption of innocence ."
This man , however, is no "direct link " with the protagonists of the drama , according to a source familiar with the matter . "Nobody cries victory , there is no certainty as to a link with the killing ," confirms France 2 the prosecutor states, however, that this inquiry " will remain perhaps not unique ."
Tracking the local killer relaunched
The arrest puts the trail of a killer local foreground while Justice considered far more than a family dispute over inheritance background disputed between the two brothers.
So far , only one person had also been arrested in this case in the United Kingdom: Zaid Al- Hilli 's brother Saad , who was arrested June 24, 2013 on suspicion of " conspiracy to commit murder." This 54 year old man admitted to being in conflict with his brother on the father's inheritance . But he never stopped protesting his innocence. And he had been granted provisional and parole, the day after his arrest, and judicial review was lifted in mid -January.
According to the information available to investigators, there was " only one shooter ," but it may have had accomplices , explained Eric Maillaud end of 2013. Nearly 25 casings were found at the scene of crime. They all come from the same weapon , an old Luger that were used there for many years in the Swiss army.
The possibility of an isolated local killer , acting on its own , is " a working hypothesis among others, but this is not the case number one ," said a source close to the Tuesday folder. Instead, investigators are working to make the connection between a local or men hand and a possible sponsor . Any other custody ahead could support such a scenario.