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Shooting in the French Alps

  • 06-09-2012 2:26pm
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    Not sure if this has been covered yet, but it's an extremely strange and shocking story;
    Three of the four victims of a shooting in the French Alps were shot in the head, a French prosecutor has said.

    One man, named by news agencies as Saad al-Hilli from Surrey, and an elderly woman were found dead in a British-registered car. A French cyclist, found close to the scene, was also killed.

    A British cyclist, an ex-RAF officer, discovered the scene near Lake Annecy.

    A second woman was also killed. A girl, four, hid in the car for eight hours before being found by police.

    BBC News

    Four victims, three seemingly from the one family and one who happened to be a passing cyclist, with a girl in a medically induced coma, following what seems like a horribly ferocious attack and a young child, aged 4, found hours later hiding in the car, possibly under the bodies.

    What happened on that road?!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭davet82


    What happened on that road?!

    its all speculation at this stage some papers saying it had the halmarks of a profesional hit....

    i dont think even the police know what happened at this early stage


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,327 ✭✭✭Madam_X


    Unreal. Reads like a horror movie plot.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,199 ✭✭✭Shryke


    I read this earlier. As one of the police at the scene said, it's like something out of a movie. I can't help but imagine things from the point of view of the cyclist. Riding along on your bike and then coming across the scene of the killing. The moment of terror as you realize what's happening and try to get away.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,869 ✭✭✭asherbassad


    Not sure if this has been covered yet, but it's an extremely strange and shocking story;



    BBC News

    Four victims, three seemingly from the one family and one who happened to be a passing cyclist, with a girl in a medically induced coma, following what seems like a horribly ferocious attack and a young child, aged 4, found hours later hiding in the car, possibly under the bodies.

    What happened on that road?!

    I just read the story. It's fcuking chilling and sinister. The man was an Iraqi with British and Swedish citizenship as far as I know.
    What happened indeed?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,070 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    davet82 wrote: »
    its all speculation at this stage some papers saying it had the halmarks of a profesional hit....

    i dont think even the police know what happened at this early stage

    They've said they have absolutely no idea who done it and that they have no leads whatsoever.. Kind of struck me as odd that they'd state that, even if true. Surely it puts the killer at ease knowing that the Police are clueless about the whole thing.


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  • Posts: 1,007 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Read a few reports about this today, nightmare stuff.

    Seems the parents and the grandmother were shot in the car, the eldest daughter tried to run away (?) and was shot three times, the youngest daughter hid under her Mum's legs and wasn't found for hours because the police were instructed not to touch the car until the forensics experts arrived.

    As if all that wasn't bad enough .... what really chilled me was the bodies were discovered by a cyclist. He said he'd been overtaken earlier on an uphill by another cyclist ... who appears to have come across the actual murders and was shot himself.

    :(


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Can you imagine being the cyclist that discovered the scene? First seeing the car with the engine still going, then this 8 year old girl badly injured, before discovering a cyclist that had overtaken you only a short while earlier was now dead, and then eventually finding the other three bodies.

    Had the cyclist left earlier, or gone quicker, it could so easily have been him that would have been shot.

    It seems the only hopes of solving this murder lies with the 8 year old girl currently in a medically induced coma.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,216 ✭✭✭✭listermint


    Seems very professional tbh.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,199 ✭✭✭Shryke


    They've said they have absolutely no idea who done it and that they have no leads whatsoever.. Kind of struck me as odd that they'd state that, even if true. Surely it puts the killer at ease knowing that the Police are clueless about the whole thing.

    Hopefully putting them at ease is the idea. It's so outlandish though that I take their statement at face value.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,048 ✭✭✭Da Shins Kelly


    Very weird story indeed. Feel sorry for the little girl who was later found alive in the car. She is gonna need some serious counselling. :(


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭davet82


    Can you imagine being the cyclist that discovered the scene? First seeing the car with the engine still going, then this 8 year old girl badly injured, before discovering a cyclist that had overtaken you only a short while earlier was now dead, and then eventually finding the other three bodies.

    Had the cyclist left earlier, or gone quicker, it could so easily have been him that would have been shot.

    i'd be thinking 'thank jaysus i'm a slow bastard' :pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,327 ✭✭✭Madam_X


    Very weird story indeed. Feel sorry for the little girl who was later found alive in the car. She is gonna need some serious counselling. :(
    And her sister who survived the attack - she was battered as well as shot.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,606 ✭✭✭✭ArmaniJeanss


    He worked in the aeronautical industry and was born in Baghdad, and seems to have fled Iraq during the last few years of Saddams reign.

    'Aeronautical' is often a code word for other things, so possibly a nuclear or weapons scientist?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,171 ✭✭✭af_thefragile


    Woah thats pretty crazy.. Sounds like the start to some hollywood movie...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,420 ✭✭✭Lollipops23


    How terrified must that little girl have been throughout? She seems to have been hiding just out of view, under her mum's legs.

    The whole thing is very odd, it does sound like a professional hit though.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh



    'Aeronautical' is often a code word for other things, so possibly a nuclear or weapons scientist?

    Massive jump in logic there.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 111 ✭✭Teangalad


    He worked in sattelite communications and imagery according to the British news channels


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    WTF did they have to shoot that 8 year old girl FFS.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    I'm not one for conspiracy theories but I find it very coincidental that the first on scene was RAF. . .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 111 ✭✭Teangalad


    WTF did they have to beat her and shoot her?....it sounds like a very professional hit up til this point unless of course they panicked when the second cyclist turned up ?....the french will know a lot more than they are saying they need to get an advantage over the killers and lulling them into a false sense of security to try and draw them out will help with investigation.....


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 111 ✭✭Teangalad


    Where To wrote: »
    I'm not one for conspiracy theories but I find it very coincidental that the first on scene was RAF. . .

    That is the operative word, a bit of a leap though, the french have been heaping praise on him for his actions...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,227 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    WTF did they have to shoot that 8 year old girl FFS.

    I thought that she got bashed on the head, and not shot,? :confused:


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    There was no one in the passenger seat.
    Maybe that suggests the killer was with them? Or met with them


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    Teangalad wrote: »
    That is the operative word, a bit of a leap though, the french have been heaping praise on him for his actions...
    Not saying he was involved in the shooting, just saying it's quite a coincidence he was in the vicinity.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,227 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    There was no one in the passenger seat.
    Maybe that suggests the killer was with them?

    Perhaps the girl was sitting in it before she ended up outside?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭davet82


    sorry to disappoint but i'm putting my money on random nutjob


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    There was no one in the passenger seat.
    Maybe that suggests the killer was with them? Or met with them

    Possibly the older child? If mum and gran were in back with the little one she would have to be in the front.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,327 ✭✭✭Madam_X


    ejmaztec wrote: »
    I thought that she got bashed on the head, and not shot,? :confused:
    Both. :(


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    ejmaztec wrote: »
    Perhaps the girl was sitting in it before she ended up outside?

    I know im doing a Columbo impression here but then that could suggest she got out and ran and then they killed her.
    **** sake.:(


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  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,731 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Teangalad wrote: »
    WTF did they have to beat her and shoot her?....it sounds like a very professional hit up til this point unless of course they panicked when the second cyclist turned up ?....the french will know a lot more than they are saying they need to get an advantage over the killers and lulling them into a false sense of security to try and draw them out will help with investigation.....

    She was possibly hit by the cyclist as she ran away


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,806 ✭✭✭✭Witcher


    I know im doing a Columbo impression here but then that could suggest she got out and ran and then they killed her.
    **** sake.:(

    They didn't kill her she's in a coma.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Blay wrote: »
    They didn't kill her she's in a coma.
    Sorry yes, i should say that's what they meant to do.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,227 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    The AH experts must be veering towards a hit-man with a machine-pistol on a motorbike, firing indiscriminately through the glass and riding off at great speed?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 309 ✭✭Tim the Enchanter


    The 4 year old is apparently being treated in a Psychiatric hospital. The poor girl. Also something strange about the cyclist that found them. The bbc report that he saw the older girl collapsing in front of him, and helped her into a recovery position, then called firefighters. Now this would seem to indicate he came across the scene very soon after the attack took place. Surely he would have heard the shots?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,806 ✭✭✭✭Witcher


    I'm suprised RTDH hasn't been over to claim it was a US sponsored Mossad false flag attack to cover up the Illuminati or some crap:pac:
    Now this would seem to indicate he came across the scene very soon after the attack took place. Surely he would have heard the shots?

    Well she was beaten over the head so the attackers must have been certain she was dead before they left, she was presumably unconscious and woke up and ran.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭davet82


    Blay wrote: »
    I'm suprised RTDH hasn't been over to claim it was a US sponsored Mossad false flag attack to cover up the Illuminati or some crap:pac:

    i agree its Illuminati in collaboration with a US sponsored Mossad attack which was overseen by the little people, good call :D


  • Posts: 1,007 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The bbc report that he saw the older girl collapsing in front of him, and helped her into a recovery position, then called firefighters. Now this would seem to indicate he came across the scene very soon after the attack took place. Surely he would have heard the shots?

    Other reports are saying he found her lying in the road and put her in the recovery position. Too early to know.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 502 ✭✭✭derb12


    Where To wrote: »
    I'm not one for conspiracy theories but I find it very coincidental that the first on scene was RAF. . .

    Maybe when the other cyclist overtook him he just snapped, caught up with him and shot him.
    Then the car of tourists passed by and were just in the wrong place at the wrong time???


    ok. Random nutjob it is.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    Where To wrote: »
    I'm not one for conspiracy theories but I find it very coincidental that the first on scene was RAF. . .

    Ex RAF.


    Everyone needs holidays.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,227 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    The 4 year old is apparently being treated in a Psychiatric hospital. The poor girl. Also something strange about the cyclist that found them. The bbc report that he saw the older girl collapsing in front of him, and helped her into a recovery position, then called firefighters. Now this would seem to indicate he came across the scene very soon after the attack took place. Surely he would have heard the shots?

    Perhaps he was too busy wheezing his lungs out pedalling to notice, or had earphones on.


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  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,690 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    Awful thing to read about, those two kids will need a lot of help to recover.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,380 ✭✭✭daRobot


    Scary stuff. I very much doubt the people who did it will be caught though.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,997 ✭✭✭latenia


    Where To wrote: »
    I'm not one for conspiracy theories but I find it very coincidental that the first on scene was RAF. . .

    A lot of army guys like to spend their holidays in the Alps doing mountaineering and cycling etc. I wouldn't read too much into it.
    Blay wrote: »
    I'm suprised RTDH hasn't been over to claim it was a US sponsored Mossad false flag attack to cover up the Illuminati or some crap:pac:

    Why not Mossad? They've done stuff like this on European soil many times in the past.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,806 ✭✭✭✭Witcher


    latenia wrote: »
    Why not Mossad? They've done stuff like this on European soil many times in the past.

    I wasn't saying their were/were not involved..I was laughing at RTDH's impending arrival in the thread and his inevitable twisting of the facts to make them into some bs theory. His usual buzzwords are Mossad, CIA, Obama, false flag, NWO etc. He normally combines any two from the list..mixes it with a news story and that's his CT in a nutshell...9/10 he also will link some loon's Wordpress blog as 'expert opinion'.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,390 ✭✭✭IM0


    mad stuff altogether, guaranteed hit Id say. As soon as I heard Iraqi that is. Id be willing to bet someone wanted him dead for knowing too much or something like that, but then again could all be a coincidence, but yeah on that note IBTL


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,227 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Blay wrote: »
    I wasn't saying their were/were not involved..I was laughing at RTDH's impending arrival in the thread and his inevitable twisting of the facts to make them into some bs theory.

    He's probably in the Alps trying to get a wi-fi signal so's he can report back to us.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,806 ✭✭✭✭Witcher


    ejmaztec wrote: »
    He's probably in the Alps trying to get a wi-fi signal so's he can report back to us.

    He doesn't use wifi personally...the CIA, NSA and MI5/6 have him under surveillance...he uses a complex system of carrier pigeons to carry his info to a network of monkeys at keyboards who type out his posts...explains how some of them make no sense at all:pac:

    Anyway..enough about RTDH...there will be plenty of time to engage with his 'theories' when he gets here:pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,538 ✭✭✭Mike Litoris


    This looks like the Fathers profile on Linkedin.

    http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/saad-al-hilli/53/327/2ab


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,737 ✭✭✭Missymoohaa


    This was no Nut job In my opinion. Google Saad al Hilli nucleur Iraq, I think a picture emerges of what happened here. Very very sad world we live in.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    This was no Nut job In my opinion. Google Saad al Hilli nucleur Iraq, I think a picture emerges of what happened here. Very very sad world we live in.
    Some credible sources there :pac:

    Maybe the family were the ones in the wrong place at the wrong time.

    Has anyone thought of that?


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