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On September 5, 2012, an unknown person killed four members of the same family, English tourists, and a young cyclist on a mountain road in Chevaline, Haute-Savoie. Two little girls miraculously escaped unscathed. The investigation focused on a motorcyclist seen near the scene of the shooting, but in vain. The mystery remains, ten years later.
With a British family gunned down in their car, a French cyclist murdered, the Chevaline killings constitute one of the greatest criminal enigmas of the last ten years. In all, four people were shot and killed in a mountain parking lot. On Monday, September 3, 2012, the Al-HilliBritish tourists of Iraqi origin, spend a few days on the shores of Lake Annecy (Haute-Savoie). The father, Saad, a civil satellite engineer, is with his wife, their two daughters and the grandmother.
On September 5, 2012, the family improvised a walk in the mountains. A cyclist discovers the murdered family in a parking lot, as well as a cyclist. In the evening, the gendarmes saw a little girl of about 4 years old alive. 21 shots were fired in less than 1 minute 30. The gendarmes found nothing suspicious in the life of the French cyclist, a worker by profession. The other hypothesis is that of an inheritance dispute between the father of the Saad family and his brother. A bikerbusiness manager in the Lyon region, was questioned on several occasions. He is finally released. The case could join the unit specializing in unsolved crimes.