Unsolved 2012 murder of British family and cyclist given to French 'cold case' teams


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  • Saturday, 24 Sep 2022

FILE PHOTO: A police officer stands by a cordon close to the house of Saad al-Hilli and his family in Claygate near London September 13 2012. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor

PARIS (Reuters) - The unsolved 2012 murder of a British family and a cyclist in the French Alps will now be handled by teams specialising in cracking cold cases, the French Ministry of Justice said on Friday.

Iraqi-born British engineer Saad al-Hilli, his wife Ikbal and her mother Suhaila al-Allaf were shot dead in their carin September 2012 near the village of Chevaline in eastern France while on a camping holiday. Sylvain Mollier, a local cyclist passing by, was also shot dead.

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