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A source who agreed to meet the Mail in a hotel in Grenoble last week has close links with the local gendarmerie and has detailed knowledge of the ballistics file.
Mr Mollier, he says, was shot seven times in two separate bursts of fire. The first two shots were to his chest, the third to his head. The angle and trajectory of the bullets mean Mr Mollier must have been either standing up or still on his bike when he was gunned down.
But analysis of the four other bullets, all in Mr Mollier’s back and lower body, indicate he was lying on the ground when they were fired. Because Mr Mollier was shot in different positions, police believe it is unlikely that all seven shots came from a single, continuous volley of gunfire; there was a gap, they think, maybe only a few fleeting moments, between the initial and final shots, during which time members of the Al-Hilli family were killed.
In other words, the gunman opened fire on Mr Mollier first, then dispatched Saad Al-Hilli, his wife Ikbal and her mother Suhalia, who had all witnessed the attack, before returning to ‘finish off’ Mr Mollier.
This version of events is not inconsistent with seven-year-old Zainab Al-Hilli’s account of what happened. According to the French newspaper Le Monde, she told detectives she and her father were outside the car when the shooting started.

All the victims were shot with the same gun, which almost certainly means there was only one killer.
Parts of the gun, it has emerged, were found at the scene, suggesting there may have been a struggle between one or more of the victims and the killer, which resulted in the weapon breaking.

However the gun was obtained, there is a growing consensus among local police that the murders were the work of a lone psychopath or ‘tireur fou’ — ‘mad gunman.’

But could his professional life hold the key? Mr Mollier was a manager at the Cezus factory near Ugine, owned by Areva, the multi-national that specialises in the research and development of nuclear power.
His job has given rise to speculation that he may have been involved in a plot to supply nuclear material to Iran — with Mr Al-Hilli, as a co-conspirator — which resulted in their elimination by state-sponsored Israeli assassins.
Inevitably, some people believe police have been too quick to discount this theory in favour of the simpler — and less politically charged — ‘lone psychopath’.

BatutaDaily Mail publicerar idag bilden på Mollier för första gången ( bilden har funnits tillgänglig på bloggar under flera veckor ).

jardin Tror att detta ar en helt annan Sylvain Mollier! Den har finns i telefonkatalogen och bor strax soder om Montbeliard, i Juratrakten. Langt fran Savoi. Har skrivit det tidigare i traden!
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