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| French Alps killings: police still searching for clues to killer's identity | French Alps killings: police still searching for clues to killer's identity |
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| French police say the Iraqi-born British engineer Saad al-Hilli, who was gunned down with three other people in an Alpine beauty spot a year ago, had an unusual amount of information related to his work with a satellite company. | French police say the Iraqi-born British engineer Saad al-Hilli, who was gunned down with three other people in an Alpine beauty spot a year ago, had an unusual amount of information related to his work with a satellite company. |
| They are trawling through hours of recordings between the father-of-two and relatives and friends, which they say sheds light on the "violent" dispute between Hilli and his older brother Zaid over their father's will. | They are trawling through hours of recordings between the father-of-two and relatives and friends, which they say sheds light on the "violent" dispute between Hilli and his older brother Zaid over their father's will. |
| Officers outlined the two main lines of inquiry – industrial espionage and a family row that ended in violence – at a joint press conference between British and French police at Annecy, a year and a day after Saad, his wife, Iqbal, and her mother, Suhaila, were shot dead near the village of Chevaline. | Officers outlined the two main lines of inquiry – industrial espionage and a family row that ended in violence – at a joint press conference between British and French police at Annecy, a year and a day after Saad, his wife, Iqbal, and her mother, Suhaila, were shot dead near the village of Chevaline. |
| However, police said they still had no idea who the killer might be except that he was an "experienced gunman". | However, police said they still had no idea who the killer might be except that he was an "experienced gunman". |
| "We don't know who they are except that they could hit a moving target and change cartridges. It is clear this was a hardened gunman." | "We don't know who they are except that they could hit a moving target and change cartridges. It is clear this was a hardened gunman." |
| The investigation into the shootings has led French detectives, working with their British counterparts, to make inquiries worldwide, including Iraq, the former Yugoslavia and Switzerland. | The investigation into the shootings has led French detectives, working with their British counterparts, to make inquiries worldwide, including Iraq, the former Yugoslavia and Switzerland. |
| Apart from Hilli's wife, Iqbal, 47, and her mother, Suhaila al-Allaf, 74, a passing cyclist, Frenchman Sylvain Mollier, 45, a father-of-three who appeared to have stumbled across the scene, was also murdered. | Apart from Hilli's wife, Iqbal, 47, and her mother, Suhaila al-Allaf, 74, a passing cyclist, Frenchman Sylvain Mollier, 45, a father-of-three who appeared to have stumbled across the scene, was also murdered. |
| The Hillis' two daughters were the only survivors of the shooting. The older girl, Zainab, aged seven, was shot in the shoulder and beaten around the head, leaving her with a fractured skull. Her sister, Zeena, four, escaped uninjured after hiding for eight hours in the rear footwell of the family's BMW 5-series estate under the skirt of her dead mother. | The Hillis' two daughters were the only survivors of the shooting. The older girl, Zainab, aged seven, was shot in the shoulder and beaten around the head, leaving her with a fractured skull. Her sister, Zeena, four, escaped uninjured after hiding for eight hours in the rear footwell of the family's BMW 5-series estate under the skirt of her dead mother. |
| The two girls are reportedly in the care of a foster family. | The two girls are reportedly in the care of a foster family. |
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