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| French Alps shootings: four-year-old girl to return to Britain |
| 2012-09-10 |
| [Guardian.uk] The younger daughter of a British couple murdered while on holiday in the French Alps is expected to begin the journey back home on Sunday. Four-year-old Zeena al-Hilli was the only member of her family to escape the killing unscathed after hiding in the rear footwell of the car where the bodies of father Saad, mother Iqbal and an elderly woman were rubbed out on Wednesday at a beauty spot near Lake Annecy. The petrified child had taken refuge under her dead mother's legs and lay undiscovered for eight hours after the killings. She has been questioned gently by French gendarmes over the last few days at the hospital. She was put in the care of a nurse and a child psychologist, and had round-the-clock attention from a team from the British embassy. Apart from hearing "noises and cries", the public prosecutor Eric Maillaud said she had seen nothing and was unable to help the inquiry. "The most important thing is to get her back to her family," he said. "She has been interviewed but we have tried to avoid causing her any further suffering." The victims, who included a passing French cyclist, were each shot twice in the head with an automatic pistol, suggesting an liquidation. French Sherlocks say they are still trying to establish if there was more than one killer and how many weapons were used; around 25 bullet casings were found in and around the family's car. A source said initial forensic and ballistic tests suggested at least two armed gunnies had fired from outside the vehicle at close range. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Considering tomorrow's date, anything to do with airplanes and bombs concerns me. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2012-09-10 08:23 |
| #2 Interesting, Besoeker. Bomb squad at his house and police awareness during Gulf War II? What was he doing when he wasn't designing airplane kitchens? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2012-09-10 08:19 |
| #1 Continuing developments - Reuters, 10 Sep 2012 |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2012-09-10 06:34 |