“The explanations given and the checks carried out made it possible to rule out his possible participation in the facts”, specifies the prosecutor of the Republic of Chambéry.
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The mystery of the Chevaline massacre remains unresolved. The 57-year-old motorcyclist heard since Wednesday in the investigation of this sordid news item of 2012 came out free, Thursday, January 13, from his custody, announced the prosecution. “The explanations given and the checks carried out made it possible to rule out his possible participation in the facts. Investigations continue to identify the perpetrator (s) of the crime within the framework of the current judicial investigation”, specifies Line Bonnet, prosecutor of the Republic of Chambéry.
“The mountain gives birth to a mouse”, welcomed in front of the cameras Jean-Christophe Basson-Larbi, the lawyer of the fifties, after having estimated that “this custody was not justified, its outcome proves it”. “My client is extremely relieved, he lived almost 48 hours of hell. He will take time to recover. The violence of what he has suffered is incredible, the end does not justify the means, the words have meaning. When you place someone in criminal custody, for murder and attempted murder, when that person has done everything to make his contribution (…), it is something very serious “, said the lawyer.
On September 5, 2012, a 50-year-old Briton of Iraqi origin, Saad Al-Hilli, his 47-year-old wife and 74-year-old mother-in-law were found dead, with several bullets to the head, in their car on a country road near Chevaline, not far from Lake Annecy. One of the Al-Hilli couple’s daughters was seriously injured while the second, curled up under her mother’s legs, miraculously escaped the massacre, physically unscathed. A cyclist from the region, Sylvain Mollier, 45, a probable collateral victim, was also shot dead.