Fyra ihjälskjutna i brittisk bil vid fransk sjö (2012-09-05)

Och om några misstankar fanns mot en den brittiska cyklist som upptäckte mordoffren så togs de bort av en akustikexpert för ett par dagar sedan. Den före detta Royal Air Force piloten påstod att han inte hörde några skott då han närmade sig mordplatsen. Efter provskjutninar i skogen har experten, som är utsedd av åklagaren, bekräftat hans vittnesmål.

Saddam Hussain gave £840,000 to the family of the British engineer who was murdered with his wife in the Alps, it was claimed last night.
The former Iraqi dictator is said to have deposited the sum in a Swiss bank account in the name of Saad Al-Hilli’s father.
The claim, which apparently originated with German intelligence, adds a sensational twist to the baffling case.
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Mr Al-Hilli’s father Kadhim was once close to Saddam’s Ba’ath Party, but fell foul of the tyrant in the Seventies, and fled Iraq for Britain.
The scene of the September 5 massacre – an isolated lay-by near Lake Annecy in Eastern France – is only an hour’s drive from Geneva where the money was deposited. Swiss prosecutor Dario Zanni believes the family may have been returning from there when ambushed.
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It raises the possibility that Mr Al-Hilli had managed to gain access to the account, which is thought to have remained in his father’s name, and that this was known to his killer.
The story was reported in the respected French newspaper Le Monde. It said that a French police source had revealed that the money’s source had been discovered by German intelligence agency BND.
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The Le Monde story was published under the headline: ‘The potential links between the Al-Hillis and Saddam Hussein.’
It said: ‘According to a French police source, the German secret service informed the gendarmerie’s anti-terrorist branch that there were links between the Al-Hilli family and Saddam Hussein’s fortune.
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Kadhim, a former factory owner, left Baghdad in the late Seventies with his wife, Fasiha, and two boys, after allegedly falling foul of the Ba’ath Party. The family settled in Pimlico, Central London, later moving to Surrey.
Another theory is that Kadhim never fell out with the Ba’ath Party at all – and that he was simply managing many accounts for Saddam behind this smokescreen.
Shortly before the dictator was executed in 2006, it was revealed that he withdraw around £620 million from the Iraqi central bank in 2003, which he had begun to hide around the world. The assets would have been added to millions already deposited in accounts in other countries – mainly through Iraqis who had moved abroad.
Saddam is known to have concentrated large amounts in Switzerland and France, where he had at least two homes and moored a £17 million yacht.
If Saad Al-Hilli was party to this secret information – and indeed the location of the hidden millions – then he would have been an obvious target for an attack.
Eric Maillaud, the Annecy prosecutor leading the inquiry into the quadruple killing, said he had ‘not yet been informed’ about the intelligence from Germany.

Another theory previously mooted was that Mr Al-Hilli was targeted by Iranian spies desperate to get their hands on high-resolution satellite technology. The Briton was an expert in that field, and worked for Surrey Satellite Technology in Guildford.

Investigators believe the killer was alone and used only one weapon, a pistol common in the Swiss army in the Twenties and Thirties.

Investigations of a possible motive for a targeted killing of Mr al-Hilli – including a family quarrel over money and his work on micro-satellites – have revealed nothing special, Le Monde said. The Annecy area prosecutor, Eric Maillaud, told Le Monde: "The hypothesis of a lone and psychologically disturbed killer, is gaining ground."

Investigators believe the killer was alone and used only one weapon, a pistol common in the Swiss army in the Twenties and Thirties.