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Earlier this month Mr Maillaud said that because Zaid al-Hilli is not being treated as a suspect he had not been asked to explain the calls from his phone to Romania.
'Those are the type of questions that cannot be asked of a witness in Britain,' the prosecutor said. 'He would have to be considered a suspect.'
The Romanian link is the latest twist in a far-reaching trans-European investigation. So far detectives have focused on Britain, Iraq, Switzerland, France and Italy, but this is the first link to Eastern Europe.
Mr Maillaud refused to confirm reports in Le Parisien that the phone calls were made between the Al Hilli family's landline and Romania, or between Saad al-Hilli's sister-in-law and Romania.

"We felt, with the agreement of the British investigators that there was now enough to hear charges under custody," said the prosecutor in the Haute Savoie Eric Maillaud. "We need to ask him questions about his schedule, his relationship with his brother and family heritage."

For the Annecy Attorney , this arrest is quite normal: "It's a bit of a non-event, as in France, given the evidence gathered by investigators at the beginning of the investigation, Zaid al-Hilli would be taken into custody in the early hours and his home was searched. This highlights the differences in existing legal proceedings between the French and English systems, said the prosecutor. Zaid al-Hilli could not be heard then as a witness, which prevented us to ask him all the questions we wanted. "


"That does not make him guilty," said the prosecutor, however "There was just enough leads today for getting the status more of a witness than a suspect, under the British penal code, and and to place him in custody and ask real questions about this case. However, it is quite possible he was released quickly. "

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I know why Zaid was arrested. The French investigators summoned him to Paris for questioning and he refused to come so the British police arrested him. The above I got from France’s private TV network TF1 this evening at 8. Do not be surprised if after the French have questioned him, he will be released. - See more at: http://www.marilynztomlins.com/articles/chevaline-shooting-saad-al-hilli-sylvain-mollier-part-7/#sthash.IEuhPmJs.dpuf