French police release sketch in Alps murder probe
Police looking for motorcyclist in case of gun attack on British-Iraqi family
French police are hoping to revive their probe into the killing of a British-Iraqi family in the Alps with the release on Monday of an identikit image of a mysterious motorcyclist.
The black-and-white image features a man sporting a goatee and wearing a rare type of motorcycle helmet that opens at the mouth.
“More than the identikit photo itself, it is the type of helmet that is interesting,” said Benoit Vinnemann, the head of investigations for the local gendarmerie.
Saad al-Hilli was gunned down in September last year along with his wife and her mother in a woodland car park close to the village of Chevaline in the hills above Lake Annecy.
His two daughters survived the gruesome attack but French cyclist Sylvain Mollier, apparently an innocent bystander, was also killed.
Investigators have struggled to find any leads in the case and are now focusing on the presence of a motorcyclist seen by witnesses near the scene of the shooting.