TCK: Forum (public)

Update oct 20, 2018

Or maybe X5 was X. The ‘one bad man’. While MC2 (the Col de Cherel motorbiker) was the backup ‘sandwich’ man to catch SM if he would have advanced further up the hill towards Col de Cherel. In any case, the killing was imho about SM, and the gunman/men knew (by info from CS) that SM would be cycling up to Martinet and possibly beyond, so that is why both X5 (the 4×4 seen by WBM) and MC2 (the motorbiker seen by WBM) ended up being there. So maybe X5/Badman shot SM (and the SAH family) and drove down, as seen by WBM. A bit later MC2 coming down from Col de Cherel as backup/sandwich saw the massacre scene at Martinet, concluded it ‘was good’ (SM was dead) and also drove down, as seen by WBM. As to be read below, I have put forward that the brain behind this was CS. And maybe MC2 was in fact CS. … The main reason for this was to explain why LR phoned SM at 15h32. This call was ‘waved away’ as unimportant, yet to me it is the ‘key’ to explaining/understanding this murder … Just read more about this below:)

Update oct 19, 2018

Tonight I was going through some old pictures. Found this one and realized that there is an imprint of a car to be seen (arrow). The picture must have been made on the day of the murders, maybe only a few hours after the murders took place. Say 19h-20h. The imprint/shadow of the car is pretty much gone (wiped?) the next day. Anyway, this imprint imho indicates a car must have been parked there for a longer period, maybe even one hour or more, so it could induce this effect. We know WBM saw one car coming down. Which car? This car?

There are 3 cars to explain. ONF1, ONF2 and the notorious X5/X3 ONF1 saw driving up. If the imprint belongs to either ONF1 or ONF2, it would proof ONF1 and/or ONF2 are lying because afaik they never said they had parked there. Let’s assume both ONF1 and ONF2 speak the truth. Then the imprint belongs to the notorious X5. What goes up (X5) must come down. So the X5 went up, was seen by ONF1, parked at Martinet (arrow), stayed some time. The Lyon MC and ONF2 passed Martinet on their way down but probably had no recollection of seeing this X5 parked at Martinet. After that, X5 went down … WBM only saw the last of the 3 cars, namely X5. WBM later saw a motorbike coming down, this was not the Lyon MC. Nope this has to be the MC2 motorbiker seen crossing Col de Cherel (timestamp wrongly reported by Janin)

Why would X5 go to Martinet? He went there because SM was going to Martinet (doing his cycling tour). But why did X5 leave before SM was shot (and the other murders)? Because X5 was not the killer, he was a carrier. So, what did X5 carry? Not the killer as passenger, because ONF1 only reported seeing 1 person in the X5. No, X5 carried the Luger (plus the message that SM was arriving) for MC2. X5 handed the Luger to MC2. MC2 is the killer. MC2 knew SM was going to Martinet, so MC2 went to Martinet over Col de Cherel and ordered X5 to bring the Luger plus message ‘SM is on his way’ to Martinet. Why so difficult? Because there could be no mobile (traceable) communication. So, X5 handed over the gun to MC2 and went down himself. MC2 waited for SM to arrive, but messed up the killing because SAH and family disturbed the scene. Now they all had to die. In my view, MC2=CS=X (see my earlier posts on this)

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(orange arrow indicates the imprint of the notorious X5)

Update aug 24, 2017

Update jun 2, 2017

My definite final analyses of the Chevaline massacre. The girl did it.

#Chevaline LR babysitting. LR 15h32 call ‘Where is CS?’. CS was at Martinet, killing SM. LR realizes CS=X, covers 4 CS. WBM saw CS on motor.

Source: https://twitter.com/deadzone61/status/870056074409365505

Notes:

The notorius Lyon motorbiker is not X. I think there is another motorbiker. The one which the english biker saw coming down just before he arrived at the murder scene. This motorbiker was not our man from Lyon, but it was the girl.

Remember that there was a motorbiker seen on Col de Cherel? Ok, the said timing doesn’t fit. But maybe our farmer at the Col de Cherel got the times mixed up.

I think that motorbiker was the girl, coming from Grignon, going over Col de Cherel to Combe d’Ire/Martinet, counter clock wise so she would bump into Mollier.

Remember also that the girl, by her own admision, was not at home all day. She said ‘I went home so that Mollier could go biking’. In other words, the girl was outside. At Grignon maybe?

Of course, that is her story. That she came home so that Mollier could go biking. And that she stayed home with the baby. The baby becoming her rock solid alibi. Btw, was there any witness to this? That she came home at said time?

Now … remember the ex-wife’s 15h32 phonecall to Mollier. How strange. How utterly macabre that she phoned Mollier at the exact moment he was shot. And her explanation? ‘Oh, just nothing, just about the kids’

I don’t believe it. She phoned alright, but with another reason. She asked Mollier, ‘Where is the girl?’

Why? Why would she ask, ‘Where is the girl?’ … Because the ex-wife was babysitting for Mollier and was waiting for the girl to come back. But the girl was ‘delayed’. Delayed because … she was at Martinet, waiting for Mollier. To kill Mollier.

Of course we know things turned out bad. The al-Hilli’s arrived on the scene and became witnesses of the murder, and therefor had to be shot too. Which the girl did. After she finished off the al-Hilli’s she put some final bullets into Mollier (‘You bastard’).

Then she went home on her motorbike, but was seen by the english biker. Arriving home, the ex-wife must have guessed what had happened or maybe the girl told her. They ‘decided to team up’, very probably with money changing hands from the girl to the ex-wife. What other option did the girl have but to pay off the ex-wife?

Anyway, the ex-wife maintains her 15h32 story ‘About the kids’ and of course hides that she was babysitting. And with that the girl can maintain her rock solid ‘baby alibi’

What’s more to say? How can you crack this?

Maybe the Luger. Who knows. And did the ex-wife have an alibi for 14h-16h?

Cheers,
Max

My previous final analysis. Also good, but not as good as the final one above:)

Update nov 2, 2016

My final analyses of the Chevaline massacre. The ‘Granny’ did it.

I denote all actors with initials. I give my analyses in shorthand style, painting the key things with few words. Figure out the complete picture yourself. I’m not a novelist. I don’t want to write a 120 paged volume on the matter.

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The ‘Granny’ did it

The ‘Granny’ (GSM) is the evil genius behind this thing, the ‘disposing of SM’. GSM organized the logistics, X was the friend in deed. Not supposed to be a massacre though. But Zainab and/or SAH disturbed X and SM (SM was already there! X held him at gunpoint) by the riverside. SM used this disturbance to try to escape from X, hence this is why he was shot in the back. Meanwhile SAH, on sensing the weird situation (SM and X) tried to escape, to no avail. The car got stuck and X terminated the SAH family because of being witnesses. SM’s ex, LR is in. She must be. She phoned SM at 15h32 when he already was at Martinet (held at gunpoint by X). LR knows, probably paid off by GSM.

GSM’s motive? SM simply was ‘unwanted’.

This is my final theory based on the facts as I know them. It maximizes the fit of pieces, while minimizing the left-overs (e.g. SAH visitor at the campsite).

PM, the legionnaire, probably is innocent, but his suicide shows how extreme the social pressure is. A force behind that social pressure probably is GSM. She saw in PM the perfect scapegoat. But she didn’t voice this directly though, that would alert the investigators.

More thoughts …

Anyway, Zainab said there was nobody when they arrived (iirc). This would be compatible with X and SM being near the river side, out of view. X wanted to kill-by-fake-accident SM, dump SM in the river, and throw the bike in the river later. If SM’s body would be found, maybe days later, who would think of a murder? Nobody, because nobody but X and the GSM party knew were SM was. Of course, when asked about the matter, GSM and X would state the didn’t know SM was biking around Combe d’Ire. He would be reported missing but nobody would find him until much later. That was the plan. The police would think of an fatal accident … nobody would come up with SM being murdered. Not your average gendarme anyway. The perfect crime.

Good plan, until SAH and Zainab stumbled on the scene going near the river side. SM, using the confusion, tried to escape from X. SM got to the road, then ran away over the parking. X also crawled up to the road, and shot the running SM in the back. SM fell on the ground, exactly in the trajectory of the reversing (reverse-break-reverse pattern) BMW of SAH. The BMW dragged SM to the other side of the parking where finally the BMW got stuck.  The rest is history.

So, it was the killer combo GSM-X. And who knows, once a killer, twice a killer? Maybe the GSM-X combo helped the other PM in 2007 by killing off CM. Team GSM-X was a team back in 2007 and again in 2012. Removing CM (danger to PM and thus GSM) and SM (danger to CS and thus GSM). The symmetry 2007=CM<–PM<=GSM=>CS–>SM=2012 is striking.

More thoughts …

The situation was this:

– SM arrived (before SAH) at parking Martinet
– X was already there (prepped for kill-by-fake-accident SM)
– X held SM at gunpoint with the ol’ Luger P06
– X wanted to ‘dump’ SM in the river (fake accident)
– X forces SM to the riverbed (behind barrier)
– Bike is at barrier (probably to be dumped in the river as well)

– SAH arrives
– Nobody to see (but the bike)
– SAH and Zainab get out
– Zainab wanders to side of the parking, near the river
– SAH goes to the barrier/bike
– SAH ‘disturbs’ X and SM

– SM takes the opportunity to try to escape
– SM ‘fights’ X
– SAH sees this (SM and X fighting, Luger P06 and all)
– SAH takes Zainab by the hand and runs to BMW

– SM manages to get to the parking, and tries to run away
– X also climbs up from the river bed to the parking (barrier)
– X, standing near the barrier, shoots SM in the back

– SAH meanwhile tries to escape in BMW (reversing)
– SAH runs over the, now downed, body of SM
– SAH drags SM, and gets stuck on the other side of the parking
– X kills witnessses

Main point is that SM was the target … but not to be shot, because a shot-dead SM would imply a ‘murder’, and this is not what GSM wanted. GSM wanted a ‘fatal accident’. A Luger sufficed to hold SM at gunpoint (explaining away the strange choice of weapon)

Plz do remember that CS, and thus GSM/TS, is/are instrumental in SM being at parking Martinet in the first place! This is fact. TS ‘adviced’ Martinet as a bike destination to SM (fact), and CS came back home early so that SM could go biking (fact). This was all ‘logistics’ planned stuff by GSM. Who knew the situation around Martinet? Answer: TS. GSM made sure X was already at Martinet. X being on foot. All prepped ‘logistics’. It makes sense. And the murder has the simplest of motives. It was a matter of GSM versus SM. The ‘disposing of’ SM.

The simplest explanations are often the best.

More thoughts …

I’m not saying SM was to be ‘drowned’, but more like ‘fallen into the riverbed, head on rock (Schumi) thingy’. If they would find SM, lying in the riverbed, with a head wound, who would think of murder? Nobody, unless there was to be a very paranoid gendarme. This gendarme would have to make the quantum leap ‘Hey this is not an accident but a murder case’ … but why would he do that?

GSM, TS, CS, etc had perfect alibi’s. Unless TS=X, which I think is the case. Then TS does not have an alibi other than the one provided by GSM.

Anyway, the situation took an unexpected and unwanted turn. The ‘massacre’. But GSM was lucky because even with SM shot, most eyes were on SAH. EM declaring, within 2 days that ‘the answer was to be found in the UK’.

Turn back to the kill-by-fake-accident plan. X would have make it to look like an accident. So, I think X wanted to dump the bike in the river next to SM. Of course, with the massacre at hand, X didn’t do that now, because a bike in the riverbed would be near proof (Columbo style) that SM was the target.

And who knows, maybe the bike was already near the riverbed(!) … But once SM escaped from X and was shot down by X and SAH was shot as well, X, to mask the ‘SM=Target’ thingy, had to pull the bike out of the riverbed and dump it on the parking, near the barrier.

This is what EM said, he said ‘It looked like the bike was thrown into a corner’

WBM stated ‘I saw the bike on the side’

The bike was ‘odd’. Yesterday night, I wondered about the pump. The airpump was lying on the ground somewhere. Where did this airpump come from. From SM’s pocket? Or was it attached to the bike?

~ Max

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  1. Extract from my discussion with JMD (May, 2014). I’m making a remark about the X5, that it does not exist

    JMD: I have strong doubts about x5 . Gendarmes too.

    MAX: WBM saw 4x4VERT coming DOWN. Later (october) police said 4x4vert=ONF … Is this still correct?
    JMD: It was a Visa Citroën (fourgon) a green one. The drivers are identified.

    MAX: Identified as ONF? This driver MUST have seen both SM and SAH … correct?
    JMD: They crossed sm but not sah who arrived First on martinet place. Sm arrived later.

    If JMD is correct, this means that WBM looks like speaking the truth. And it looks like this Citroen is another car next to ONF1/2. The Citroen missed SAH, thus that means he was coming from a side path and got on Route Forestiere after SAH had already past. In principle this could have been ONF1/2 (if Citroen) if one of them went into the woods (side path) and came out later

    Anyway, WBM looks like ok

    JMD is also saying that SAH was first on Martinet, as is confirmed by Zainab (no one there remark)

    It looks like the shooting started/ignited with SM’s arrival

    Now, with this 4×4 coming down business out of the way. We ONLY have to deal with the ONF1/X5 business which definitely can NOT be explained anymore by WBM’s 4×4

    I still go for X5=SAH (for obvious reasons, because it is the solution to the 14h40Fillon/15h17Lastpicture riddle)

  2. Lynda,

    I think ONF1 imagines the X5 because he argues that the car escaped over the mountains. The only BMW which can do that are 4×4’s, and thus X5 (X3) … soooo, ONF1 starts with the escape over the mountains … and finds the proper BMW model to do the trick (the brain is a tricky device;)

    He saw a RHD BMW alright, with 1 driver, no problem. He saw SAH, with little Zainab next to him, too small to be seen.

  3. @ Lynda

    Thanks for those links. It certainly does imply that the visit triggered bursts of calls relating to the inheritance dispute. If the visitor was not a representative of Said (I think not) then who?

    In your second link the paragraph preceeding the one you quoted includes the following sentence:-

    “De fait, plusieurs campeurs auraient assisté à la scène au milieu du verger où la famille al-Hilli résidait.”

    Am I reading this correctly as implying (in context) that several other campers, hearing raised voices, approached the scene to see if there was a ‘problem’. Presumably they were told things were ‘ok’ and they left.

    If that is roughly correct then the campers must surely be able to identify the language used and have had a look at the mysterious visitor.

  4. Sorry I put the wrong song (link), but with Dire Straits there aren’t wrong songs .

    Goodnight

  5. Max, I still can’t see how a green van becomes a dark 4×4 (WBM) ! Whether the X5 is SAH Estate, ONF1 didn’t see the car again because it was BEHIND him and never caught up.

    The quote from Ducos at least shows ONF2 didn’t pass SAH at Le Martinet, so NOBODY or NO BODIES (James).

    Here is my take on a possible scenario:

    http://www.lematin.ch/faits-divers/proprietaire-voiture-identifie/story/19559900

    Parmi les gendarmes mobilisés, l’un d’entre eux ferait état d’un 4×4 de couleur sombre redescendant à vive allure des lieux du crime, selon le site tdg.ch.

    Using the above quote, ONF1 described as being the only one who saw a BMW RHD X5 dark in colour (Maillaud – could be X3, only seen by this witness, read that differently and he is the ONLY one who DESCRIBES it in DETAIL.

    He sees it approaching Le Martinet, others see a dark 4×4 speeding away.

    This car exists, it was more than likely following the Al-Hillis, not to kill them, to track their movements to the bank in Switzerland, to stop SAH putting his version of his late father Will in place.

    Here is my theory, this car followed SAH from the campsite, at a certain point he had to stop at traffic lights or roundabout/junction, so continued along the road to Chevaline, SAH passing Fillion at about 14:40, he didn’t go up the Combe d’Ire, he took the hairpin into Moulin, taking photos along the way.

    The 4×4, speeds past Fillion unnoticed, Lise Ducher didn’t see SAH, never mentions cyclists, possibility that a second car wasn’t seen by anyone, travelling fast in an attempt to catch up, it gets to the Dangerous Road sign and speeds up Combe d’Ire, crosses ONF1 arrives at Le Martinet, no SAH, road goes no further, so pulls in fast and then does the reverse arc and speeds back down the Combe, then takes Moulin, realising that SAH must have turned here, he is now more than 20 minutes behind AH.

    Somewhere along the route from the sawmill to flower house and back again, SAH parks his car and it isn’t obvious to the speeding 4×4, so it is lost. He gives up and decides to wait it out near the campsite for the families return.

    SAH goes back to the sign and decides to have a look see….. the rest is history.

    The dark 4×4, would not come forward, eventhough it wasn’t involved in the killings, because it was following SAH.

    I’d guess that the man in the suit seen at Solitaire the day before remonstrating with SAH is the driver. (Rashomon – the people who spoke to the Press were Dutch and they say they didn’t know what language was being spoken, it certainly wouldn’t have been French, at least not according to James Mathews as Saad could only manage to buy some bread).

    After this guys visit SAH made a barrage of calls to SPAIN and SWITZERLAND, the latter we asume to be the bank, the former, Estate Agent, Solicitor, the carer and the home help all come to mind.

    I repeat, it is ONLY an opinion.

  6. BWM
    “Autre témoignage important est celui du cycliste britannique résident en France qui a découvert la scène de crime. «Ce qu’il a indiqué- il est important de rappeler qu’il était en plein effort physique”

    http://www.parismatch.com/Actu/Societe/Chevaline-Tout-ce-que-l-on-sait-161200

    SM
    Autre élément troublant : le lieu du drame. Le chemin était prisé par les randonneurs, c’est un fait, mais pas indiqué pour la pratique du vélo de course… Les gendarmes se sont largement interrogés sur la présence incongrue de Sylvain Mollier sur ce chemin, déduisant que l’homme s’était égaré. Pourtant, le procureur indique que, joint par sa compagne sur l’itinéraire, l’Uginois aurait répondu qu’il était en plein effort et qu’il la rappellerait une fois arrivé. Il ne lui a pas déclaré s’être perdu.

    http://www.lessorsavoyard.fr/Actualite/Annecy/2013/10/12/article_chevaline_le_cycliste_savoyard_pourrait.shtml

    En plein effort physique ! Mon oeil !

    263m de dénivelé
    http://www.lessorsavoyard.fr/Actualite/Annecy/2013/10/12/article_chevaline_le_cycliste_savoyard_pourrait.shtml

    Je ne veux pas être mauvaise langue, mais peut-être qu’il était en plein effort ensemble.

  7. Bacchus, those damned Gremlins ! Turns out the call to SM was from his ex-wife, not his current partner CS, the former having re-married. They live in Marthod with the two older Mollier boys, which is where they were when she woke them on the evening of the 5th September to tell them their father was dead, probably a knee jerk reaction as it would have been better to leave it until the morning when the adults had absorbed the terrible news.

    Strangely, the discovery of the telephone call was through examination of the call traffic and not by admittance, maybe LR didn’t want to tell FR or CS that she’d made contact that fateful afternoon …. which is a bit odd as they are so very friendly.

    Mollier as target maybe nothing to do with his ‘romantic life’, just pure jealousy, he’d quit his job (paternity leave), was living with a much younger woman who spoilt him (5k bike), maybe there is someone out there that just didn’t think he deserved such treatment ?

    Gunman is a lone wolf, in that he acted alone, that is why he is difficult to trace, gossip locally would be sooo interesting, but there is also fear he might do the same to someone who speaks out.

    The suicide, legionnaire – a disturbed man, particularly with a 6/7 page note where he says that the two hour Chevaline interview at his home bothered him, more likely a failed relationship (again) and alcohol, his old Army gun, which he got to keep when he left the service no doubt the weapon used.

    Has Jim Thompson been dug up yet ?

  8. Pondering….

    ONF1 claims to have saw a RHD BMW 4×4.
    He’d also spoke to ONF2 with regards to the MC (knowing that ONF2 was up the Combe D’Ire).
    And he believes that the 4×4 did not return down the Combe D’Ire (but away over the hills to somewhere).

    Therefore the 4×4 that past WBM has to be ONF2.
    (Unless Eric isn’t telling ONF1 what WBM saw …..AND ONF2 hasn’t told him he drove down the route)

    The only other possibility is that it is a completely separate vehicle, which has been traced and excluded from the investigation (and does not wish to be named)….which means that ONF2 did not exit the Combe D’Ire at any time prior to the shooting.

    In my mind the most logical version of events was that ONF2 past down the route….and passed WBM.
    As Al Hilli (by this time) had overtaken WBM, the ONF2 vehicle would have had to have seen the MC, SAH and SM.

    They alone (ONF2) are the only people that can provide information as to the relative positions of SAH, SM and the MC.

    Given that the police stated when SAH arrived at the Martinet there was no one else there (a report from his interview with ZAH) we only have THREE possibilities.

    1. This statement is a reference to the Al Hilli’s FIRST visit.
    2. The ONF2 vehicle had passed through the Martinet already
    3. The ONF2 vehicle had not yet passed through the Martinet and was above at the hairpin (with the MC).

  9. “ONF1 claims to have saw a RHD BMW 4×4”
    Doh ! It’s Sunday and a party till 5am last night ! He “saw” should read “seen” !

  10. James, what is astounding is that no journalist has ever asked Maillaud these questions.

    They could put these ONF-guys, ONF1 & ONF2, on a podium and let the journalists ask them questions. Where were they? Where did they go and when? Who did they see?

    I wonder why they don’t do that….?

  11. Lars….

    That is TOTALLY correct.
    My thoughts exactly . Why haven’t they done just that ! What is Eric hiding ?

    And then we have the MASSIVE delay in releasing the smallest piece of information supplied by the ONF2 guys.
    The photo fit / robot.

  12. Lets assume that SAH arrives at the Martinet.
    There is no one there.
    Where did the MC go ? And why ?
    Surely if he was to attack the Al Hilli family, then that is the time.

    The MC was spotted (we believe) by ONF1, so he knows there is a possibility of “traffic” through the car park.
    Urgency would be needed. The moment could have been seized. But it wasn’t.

  13. Eric – little by little . . . .

    To me the question to ask is not “What is Eric hiding ?” but rather “Who is it being hidden from?”

    The answer is certainly not us!

    There is a good chance that someone involved had a Police or Military background. Maybe even still serving. Just possibly, involved in the investigation itself.

    In the UK another force would be brought in.

    Eric (or those further up the foodchain) seems to have chosen obfuscation.

  14. Rashomon,
    I could buy that, and it has been proposed before, but it would be a game at a very high cost. Maillaud would then deliberately be playing with other peoples lives (read the Al-Hilli family, and foremost Zaid’s).

    I wonder if they expect that the public (and the Al-Hillis) will buy that.

  15. Bacchus, sorry if I’ve offended you, I was referring initially to the music video that has now gone.

    “le procureur indique que, joint par sa compagne sur l’itinéraire, l’Uginois aurait répondu qu’il était en plein effort et qu’il la rappellerait une fois arrivé”

    Your quote says it was his ‘compagne’ that telephoned him, when apparently it was his ex-wife.

  16. Rashomon…

    That thought had crossed my mind. But as Lars says, Eric would be playing a very high stakes game.

    Then the thought struck me. What if Eric “felt” they could solve this crime quickly. Certainly he had a considerable amount of information from the start.

    Both the ONF vehicle occupants would have given statements early on.
    Along with accounts from WBM and PB.

    From that I would assume there would have been a “manhunt” for the photofit/robot.
    And a “vehicle hunt” for a BMW 4×4 and a large style street bike.

    And yet….. Eric immediately and publicly refused to entertain the idea that Mollier was the primary target…. and firmly placed the idea that key to solving these murders was the Al Hilli family background. Was this merely “a ploy” ?

    If it was, it wasn’t a very good one. The British police ended up arresting Zaid Al Hilli.
    And nothing from the French investigation has turned up anything.
    (in saying that, there has been several “local” arrests and “local” police activity…..and a suicide !)

  17. James, Maillaud certainly said that they didn’t make the sketch of the MC rider public because they didn’t want him to bolt or commit suicide, could have been not to destroy the helmet etc. as well, would need to go back into the Press Conference from November last year, maybe it was Vinneman who made these statements.

    I just can’t see how Zaid has gained from the murders, not monetarily wise, could be that he merely wanted the thorn from his side removed, Saad and that he felt he’d then take charge over the matter for Ikbal.

    It is also the apparent shortness of time to put in place such a massacre in another country, a snap decision to go on holiday, taking Granny along, I wonder if Ikbal continued to speak with Zaid and her nephew, even Saad with the latter ?

    The only aspect I’m uncomfortable with is Zaid extraordinarily being at the seaside in Worthing, with a friend, buying antique tables the day of the murders, maybe that is the point, just coincidence just like Jim T. dying some seven hours later many thousands of miles away.

    Bossy didn’t see a MC, by the timings he should have, that MC most likely turned off the route Forestiere, that would mean it was someone who knew where he was headed, otherwise just as Alex’s latest Video shows a stranger wouldn’t know that what appeared to be a route wasn’t going to turn into nothing more than a track.

  18. Lynda

    The statement given by PB would be an interesting read.
    He is effectively a “buffer” ascending the climb and decaying the time available for departing vehicles to exit.
    All either have to miss him or see him, depending on “time” (or like you say, turn off the route before it’s end).

    The MC passes WBM at an “unusually slow” speed. Was this to avoid the ONF2 vehicle which had preceded him ?
    If so, did Bossy sight the ONF2 vehicle ? (Or had it cleared the route by then / turned off the route by then ?)

  19. James, No you have to watch it direct.
    By the way what has happened to Filmon? It is totally crazy when I try and use it. It goes round in an eternal loop. Are there no free channels anymore?

  20. Lars, it is the same Teaser….

    I’ll watch tomorrow, try and make notes my DVD Recorder in place, guarantee of success – not good.

  21. Lars…

    FilmOn works okay here.
    The “looping” maybe the something to do with the buffering.
    Sometimes it does it here (and on fibre optic).
    I find shutting down (the ipad) and rebooting sorts it out. Then it plays as it should (as in “live”).

  22. @Lynda,

    you did not offense me, there is no reason for it. Since you are an inexhaustible source of information, what is your opinion on “en plein effort” while the slope is only 6%, an elevation of 250m for a 4km route? Do not forget that the two cyclists are experienced amateurs!

  23. @Bacchus,
    If I would answer I would say that it is b***sh*t. And I have said so since Sept. 2012.
    For any normal cyclist that is nothing/nada.

  24. Thanks James, I might have trouble with the No Script add-on in my browser. It is always difficult to know what to allow, or how much to allow. But they have changed the http-addresses to the channels anyhow.

  25. @Lars,

    you seem a little nervous about this. What is your opinion on why this information?.

    Keep Calm and carry on.

  26. Lars

    How fast can a talented amateur climb that route….on a “delicate” racing bike.
    Or put it another way, WBM saw SM ahead in Chevaline. Is he that far behind when he reaches the car park ?

    Again, the unreleased information of ONF2 becomes important.

  27. @ Lars
    @ James

    It would be at a very high cost, but not the highest possible. It might be his least worst option.

    Don’t worry, I haven’t gone all ‘sympa’ on Eric, particularly his treatment of Zaid. But Eric has a set of priorities and a duty-of-care to Zaid is not one of them.

    The ‘highest cost possible’ I alluded to above could be, for example, the perpetrator going on another killing spree or start targeting witnesses. The thee ONF employees are presumably somewhere in the forest every day. Brett Martin is still pottering about on his VTT, the Durchers herding their cows.

    I think it is notable that the three ONF workers have neither been named nor pictured. The one who was interviewed did so with his face obscured. PB has been named (after the initial pseudonym) but his two companions have not.

  28. But you always have to keep an eye on the following (when working on SM=target):

    – SM was there, at Martinet! Why?
    – SM was shot (probably on arrival) at Martinet! How did X know about Martinet?

    2 solutions:

    1. SM did a ‘tour’, and X knew the route
    2. SM had a ‘meeting’. With X, or X knew about the meeting

    If I throw LR/15h32 (phone call) and CS/17h (alarm raised) in the mix, it seems to me like it was option 2.

  29. @James,
    It is hard to say. I have long said that it would be fun (and necessary) to make a reconstruction along that road.

    My experience, cycling on forest roads with a car going in the same direction, is that that the car doesn’t go that much faster. It is simply not comfortable on such a road. Route Forestiere is very narrow (see Alex’s videos on YouTube), winding, with pot holes, muddy, and an occasional tree branch in the way.

    For a first time visitor and tourist like Al-Hilli they probably went at a comfortable pace

    I think Bacchus 14 minutes is reasonable. Sylvain could do it in a couple of minutes less. And he shouldn’t be that far from Al-Hilli’s car when they arrived at Martinet, perhaps 3 minutes away or so. That seems also to fit with the events that followed.

    Brett Martin shouldn’t be far behind Sylvain, perhaps 5-6 minutes. Since the massacre at Martinet must have taken at least a couple of minutes it would place Brett Martin very close to Martinet at the time.

    I think a reconstruction will show that Brett Martin can hardly be telling the whole truth in his interviews.

  30. @Lars / @Bacchus

    Yeah I agree with those times. Give or take for each person / type of vehicle in line with the condition of the road.
    14 or so for a bike. Around 8 for a car (give or take).

    ONF1 say he saw a BMW 4×4 at 15.20 and he had 1 km to go to clear the Combe D’Ire.
    It would appear he’s sticking to that, even though “unsupported” by ONF2 and WBM.

    We appear to know that that SAH and family are approx at the bottom of the route at 15.17. They’re out of the car and they are making a photograph. Of course the BMW 4×4 at 15.20 is an “approx” time (publicly stated on CrimeWatch UK) and it must be based on the approx timings given by ONF1 and prior to WBM arrival at the Combe D’Ire climb.

    This of course (and logically) gives rise to the theory that ONF1 was mistaken in see a BMW 4×4. And what he really saw was the Al Hilli family. But that in itself causes a problem. WBM claims he was passed (upwards) by one vehicle and that “he believes” that to have been the Al Hilli family (although he “does not know this to be fact”).

    A “mistaken identity” would indeed be the case (or highly likely) IF the ONF1 person stated “…and I passed two cyclist also heading upwards”. He (ONF1) had plenty of opportunity to “later recall” these two cyclists at different stages of the climb in his BBC Panorama interview…but he didn’t (I guess he just could “add that” without adding it to his police statement !).

    The only possibility(s) I can come up with is….
    1. There was no BMW 4×4
    2. The time provided by ONF1 is completely wrong.

    The third possibility is too bizarre to consider.
    That being “the timed 15.17 photograph is a “fake” (fake time maybe even location), ONF1 was departing the Combe D’Ire way before 15.20 and neglected to say that the Al Hilli family were already arriving at the car park, the MC was ahead of them and continued upwards towards the hairpins…..and the vehicle that passed WBM was a RHD BMW 4×4″.
    …and Laurent fillion-Robin saw them pass (from Arnand to the Martinet) between 14.30 / 15.00

    Told you it was bizarre !

  31. I hate “conspiracy theories”. Mainly because they lack “evidence”.

    BUT go to the 15.17 last family photograph.

    SAH shirt is “un-tucked” on his right hand side (the left as you look at it)
    BUT “tucked in” on his left hand side (the right as you look at it).

    That’s the only explanation I can find as to why I see considerably more of his blue shirt on one side than the other ?

  32. @james,
    According to what we have been told by your namesake, Saad wasn’t too particular about his clothes. He preferred the easy-going style.

    PS1: Filmon worked as usual today, so it was obviously some problem I had yesterday with the connection.

    PS2: I have tested to watch RMC Decouverte today on my PC using VPN and it works fine (see above). So hopefully I will be able to watch Les Faits Karl Zero -Chevaline tonight.

  33. @Lars

    Everyone on holiday like to dress in a relax style.
    But his polo shirt looks “out” on one side but “in” on the other.
    As in…. I see lots of blue on one side…..and no blue at all on the other side.
    Is the photo “faked” ? Is it a photoshop job ?

    The police said the last photo was taken in Arnand. That’s were they were outside the car.
    The location of the photo isn’t in Arnand.
    And worse….at around that time WBM would be passing the Al Hilli family. He simply had to “go past them” for them to overtake him again on the Combe D’Ire.

    …..and he didn’t spot them “walking about” in the road ?

  34. James, thinking about the timings by ONF1, MC first seconds/minute later X5, if this were to be true then that puts the X5 at about 15:16/17, just before Le Martinet, see Max’s photos on the sidebar, it also then puts the MC 15:25 two hairpins up (ONF2). That would make ONF2 going through Le Martinet before 15:30, just before. The problem with the 15:20 Crimewatch is the description of where the X5 was seen, Vinneman says ‘premier tier’ he is most likely referring to the entire length of the Combe d’Ire and not just the section to Le Martinet.

    Nevertheless it doesn’t account for where the X5 went after that, it could have taken a chance and gone over the Col, wasn’t seen by ONF2, or it was there much earlier as was the MC.

    When I read up about the way the ONF operate, they go off in the morning and stay out all day until their shift finishes, could it be that ONF1 was quitting his post a little early that day ? As in before 3pm.

    Firstly it would give the MC much more time hanging about to position himself (if he is the killer) and the X5 or SAH time to go back downhill unseen by anyone. The problem arrives when I consider how the MC ends up behind ONF2, it didn’t it was behind the green Citroen Visa Fourgon that probably wasn’t an ONF vehicle. Alex’s video shows cars parked along the route as well as at Le Martinet.

    I’m guessing both the MC and ONF2 turned off the route at the gravel track, 900 metres downhill, ONF2 sees SM but not SAH or WBM. In the latters account he says that the BMW engine was still running, the girl was staggering about, that suggests he arrived fairly soon after the shooting took place. Nearer 15:40, MC went through an empty Le Martinet as did ONF2.

    The killer was in position, on foot long before he fired a shot, he was waiting for his prey, maybe he was taken here in the mysterious X5, in the rear, tinted windows hiding him, more likely he came across Les Bauges to a place he knew where SM had planned to be – humiliation is a powerful murder weapon.

    I hope I make sense !

  35. James,

    I like your blue polo shirt observation. The blue ‘part’ on the left (right for SAH) seems weird. I can’t make out what it is. It looks like another stucture that the blue shirt!?

    If the family is photoshopped in the Flat Iron building picture? Idk

    Btw, you are wrong about WBM and SAH. WBM took route de Chevaline, and SAH took route du Moulin … so WBM did go up on another road while SAH was taking pictures at that FI building

    If the photo is fake, then they did a good job as analyses of the shadows gave a time of 15h00 or later. So … the at least took the FI building photo at the correct (15h17) time.

    If it was the same day? Who knows:) On the picture the sun is shining (hence shadows)

    Q: But why would they photoshop SAH into this picture?

    A: to mask the time! To make it look like SAH and family was happy and wel, alive and kicking at 15h17. But perhaps they were already dead or what. Fillon said he saw SAH at 14h40 going up. That would mean SAH would be at Martinet 14h50. The gun fire was heard at 15h30. SAH would have been around for 40 minutes, with his family. Strange, very strange

    (I’m not going the photoshop route … but as said, I like the blue shirt observation!)

  36. @Lynda

    It could be. Lets face it, only one person alive saw the person firing the fatal shots.
    And that memory may be too “shell shocked” to provide an answer.
    One “statement” from her via the police was that there was only “one bad man” shooting.
    We are left to assume (along with the police ?) that “he” was the motorcyclist (unless the police have more info now).

    Was the motorcyclist driving slowly because he heard the initial shots when he was further up the climb ?
    But why did he not come forward ? Why did no one else come forward who knew of this MC that was staying in the area ?

    From what we have (and without ONF2 coming forward we don’t have alot) we have to assume the MC = Killer.
    …and there’s that word again ! “Assume” !

  37. @Max

    Who knows what it is. It just looks odd to me.

    I start by saying it’s not a photo masking and look to the shadows.
    But that’s also weird.

    On Saad (the part where you can’t see his blue polo shirt) all you see is “black”.
    Ah…. his shirt must be tucked in only on that side….and in the shadow.

    But the daughter held in her mothers arms ?
    You can see her leg which is furthest away and around her mothers hip.
    Should that leg not also be in shadow if Saad’s polo shirt is ?

  38. @ James

    I see what you mean about the polo shirt. The right hand side ‘dark patch’ looks black or dark grey, not blue.

    As it is a TV sceencap, my guess would be that this is an artefact of the processing chain. The original picture was taken on a relatively low resolution phone camera. Then it was probably ‘adjusted’ for TV use. The screen capture process may also have affected it.

    Essentially I think some kind of gamma correction has ‘crushed’ a darker area to appear black, thus losing the colour.

    Somebody who knows what they are doing may be able to recover colour information from a lighter section of the right hand side ‘dark patch’.

    OTOH his shirt may just be tucked in!

  39. Rashomon

    I guess it’s just something for “the file” at the moment.

    Your explanation re “for use on TV” and “crushing colours” may prove to be the answer.
    It just looks “strange”.

    If it is “masking” then it is one hell of a blunder to make. Hence it can’t be masking (?).
    (Although I am reminded of MH370 and the fact they used the same legs for the two pax using “fake” passports !).

    Add it to the file I guess.

    I’m trying to find (any !) explanation as to why LFR 14.40 (between 14.30 and 15.00) sighting is so at odds with the 15.17 last family photograph “not in Arnand” timing.

    I get the “cuddly toy” theory. At 15.17 (plus 1) the Al Hilli family realised after the photo was taken that they had left “something” behind at the Martinet….and so returned. Fate (alas) works like that.

    And “test it” as I might, it seems to be the only logical explanation why Saad could be passing LFR at an earlier time…and then pictured (we think) against the Flat Iron building.

    ONF1 would miss Saad. ONF1 was 2k’s down the climb at approx 15.20 (on official stories).

    Truly a puzzle wrapped in an enigma. If I worked for B.A, I just ring Martin up and ask him what he actually saw !!!!

  40. That shadow !

    It’s even stranger than I thought.

    It goes from the top of the eldest childs head, under Saad’s arm, then down. (in a block).
    Is it “masking” ? I’m not convinced….. Ikbal’s sunglasses can be seen hanging from her skirt.

    So why does Saad look “odd” and Ikbal doesn’t ?

  41. James, I guess that Saad, since he was a man with a sense of humour, would have agreed; that he looked odd and Ikbal didn’t. lol

    Just watched Les Faits Karl Zero – La Tuerie de Chevaline. Nothing really new, maybe a small piece here and there. I have to watch it again. There is too much repetition in those documentaries.

  42. Lars.

    Anything from ONF2 ?
    Or LFR timing ?

    Just looking at the family photo again. It hit me how shocking this crime actually is.
    As a pilot I guess you never think “if I fail, these guys behind die” (it happens).
    You become…”task focused”, almost “beyond reality” of what you do.

    These people died. Their children will always be “at the martinet car park”.
    We must be able to do something.

  43. No, no, no ONF’s to be seen, or Mollier, or anything French. In 70 minutes they spent perhaps 5-10 minutes on the local ‘piste’.

    They never really analyze the crime they just look at the surface. No timings, no anything.

    I agree. It is shocking. That’s why I got engaged in the first place. And I still hope there will be a solution. But it will have to come from outside the French investigation.

  44. Here is my synopsis of Karl Zero:

    ‘aspirebet’ France2Forum, was right in the synopsis about the campsite, even includes Ducos speaking !

    I’m really disappointed about the Passports comments (now that the matter is solved) and Mollier is really being brushed aside….

    ……..

    For me the main points beyond the above, two shells found by the bike and the bits of the wooden grip found in Zainabs wounds.

    If I understood correctly, 15 bullets at the car out of 24 fired.

    The first Gendarmes arrived at the sawmill at 16:08, helicopter was sent up and found all the hikers that were on Les Bauges.

    Used Faro D to locate direction of bullet fire.

    KAH gave money to ZAH to purchase flat, after KAH died, ZAH contacted Estate Agent to sell or rent the studio flat in Spain, Estate Agent said this wasn’t possible until the Will had been processed.

    ZAH falsified Will.

    Confusion over the Claygate house, SAH THINKS his mother left him the house (?) ZAH wants half house and half monies (Bank Account), SAH puts in caveat to stop process of probate.

    In the meantime ZAH hasn’t touched a dime.

    Swiss bank an hour away from Europa campsite.

    ZAH tried to get a bank card against the money in Swiss Account, in 2012….

    Gary Aked – SAH didn’t say he was going away.

    MYSTERY MAN WAS AT EUROPA, banged on the bonnet of the car – see above…

    Family left Solitaire around 13:00, lots of photos taken by Granny with the hour and date, arrived at Le Martinet (this bit I didn’t get, did he say between 15:00 and 15:35 ?) Had SAH seen a problem, he wouldn’t have stopped due to his experiences in Iraq.

    All the reverse arc stuff, caught Mollier, broken ribs, collar bone etc.

    Not a Professional hit.

    Local piste not completely closed.

    Satellite stuff ….. converting transformer to military, still being studied.

    PASSPORTS – Maillaud you really are an idiot (that’s me, throwing soggy crisps at the tele, spilt my white wine!)

    WBM was a suspect, he was only 200/300 metres from Le Martinet, proofed not to have been able to hear the shots….

    NCT – fausse piste

    SM, shot first, piste closed 17/12/12 99.9%. Welder, charming and charmer, joked one day he’d be shot in the street

    Maillaud, Al-Hillis as target most reasonable.

    He went to Iraq, he found himself to be more English than the English, his childgood home had changed so much

    Denounced USA for their invasion, (sorry I missed the date of when he went back), house was occupied by squatters

    Colin Freeman journalist interviews cousin Hussain Al-Hilli claims SAH wanted to move back to Iraq, SAH had a fight with the squatters

    5/10/2012- Iraq file, dead, no reply

    Rogatoire (yawn), 4k phone calls traced

    Zaid remains a suspect, would be acquitted if went to court UK or France, offered to undergo a Polygram (lie detector)

    Maillaud categorically says Zaid is a liar regarding the inheritance dispute

    ZAH says Gendarmes are lying, Maillaud says he could see the file if he asked

    Portrait Robot – description given by two ONF – white motorcycle – offered up within 72 hours, helmet army or gendarmes, face nothing exceptional, 100 calls received , 40 serious

    Eric D. mobile phone not far away, likes weapons, found lots of guns etc.

    His DNA didn’t match that found at scene

    Great merge of him and PR, clever

    Dominique Rizet, another PR of a man with a square face/jaw, looks like a GANGSTER

    DR thinks the murders are ‘local’ and follows SM as target.

    Whew, hope someone recorded this for use later !!!

  45. WOW !

    @lynda

    The “croc” is on one foot. The other foot is behind. The sunglasses infront. That’s one point (more so now).

    @the documentary

    Was there now DNA found at the scene ? Not before mentioned.
    Like many things “not before mentioned”.
    Arnand, the motorcyclist, ONF1, ONF2, the BMW 4×4….need I go on.

    So this is now “open” ?
    It is a work of fiction we were presented with ?
    The “French police” are now a complete joke (at best) or they are lying (at worst).

    The photo…. in light of this documentary, is a lie.

  46. Look again James, what you see is the sole of the shoe, hanging down, I took a double take as well. I thought it was sunglasses, follow the childs leg, otherwise I need new specs, as for the dark side, we’re not seeing a high quality photo, I suspect all three that have been used by BFMTV are camera phone photos of photos from the file, not copies of original jpegs.

    But whilst you are looking at the photo, can you see the trace of a green cap under Saads hands on his daughters chest ? Maybe my imagination is running away with me and it is just a conveniently placed logo ….

    The DNA was already brought up at the time of Eric D’s arrest in February.

    What is ‘new’, the Motorbike is now white and two shell casings found near Molliers bike and more description of Molliers injuries made by the car.

  47. Lynda

    The Mc had a “white bike” before (Jan 13 info was released)
    I have read all accounts today !

    The pic.
    The daughters sole is pointing horizontal , it can not “laterally extend” into that position. ( I don’t know, but I emailed the pic to a Med friend without saying what I am doing). The “dark spots” are glasses (or something), but not soles of feet.

  48. James, my latest scenario is not a ‘cuddly toy’ but some kind of road rage.

    – SAH (X5) was just behind MC (statement ONF1)
    – Perhaps they had ‘trouble’ (passing?) on their way up
    – Once at Martinet, with (unfreindly) MC already there, SAH decided to go back, and come back later
    – So, they took pictures down in Arnand/Doussard and decided to go back up after 40 minutes … in the hope MC was gone
    – He wasn’t

    … This is much more elegant. It actually could be true.

    I will point again at the 2 sets of front tyres I see (2 x SAH)

  49. Other than the “you can not extend a foot” in that way….. I will add.

    On Saad’s right side (left as we look) he has “blue” on his leg. Jeans I imagine. Normal blue jeans.
    His “other side” is “black”. No shadow. Just “Block black”. Odd “block black”.

  50. @Max

    I have some time here. Lets just “discover” this theory a little more.

    I don’t believe the photo is real.
    I believe the French are “not telling the truth”.
    I tend to believe LFR (although his ID of the car was FIRST by UK plates…he doesn’t know the owner, but he knows he is from the UK, so what better way is there to “look” closely” ?

  51. LFR is looking closely….maybe to give his excuses why the job isn’t finished.
    Maybe “awaiting” the owner ?

    This is 14.40 ? ish ?
    Al hilli climbs the route. 14.50 ?
    And then comes back down (depending how long he was there, what time does he return ?).

    Hmmmm.

  52. I have another issue !

    Between the upper part of Saad’s right arm (as wee look the left) there should be green (or building).
    There isn’t. It is clearly white. And more “white” than the rear object.

    At 15.17 Saad was not stood in that position.
    Maybe Ikbal was ?

  53. James, did you save the original BFMTV screen grab, the girls faces are blurred not pixelated, it is of a higher quality.

    They are not in the shadow of the building behind, Shadwell did a really good study of this a while back, did you see it ?

    The MC has been described as white/white and black (ONF1), light coloured (WBM), it is the first time the MC colour has been mentioned in relation to the ONF2 sighting and Portrait-Robot.

  54. Hi !
    I watched the documentary too, and I find the second portait robot detail really weird. I can understand why the police waited one year before publishing the first PR, but what about this second one ? Maybe it’s not accurate enough but still, it could help…
    And do we know if the daughter (the one who was hit) ever described the killer ? Despite her trauma, I’m surprised the police could not use more of what she saw. That gives the impression the police is hiding details…

  55. I just relistened the BFMTV news item where Rizet is talking about Chevaline. When the aerial phot came up he says

    ‘Interesting about this photo are the traces (tyres) you can see … which you can not see when on the ground’

    Of course he is talking about the arc.

    But … my false colors processed photo show even more details. I see 2 sets of front tyres! (I already meantioned this way back on MZT).

    I’m not sure if there is anybody else here or with the investigating team who sees this too … but I definetely see them. There are 2 sets of front tyres!! (My explanation is 2 x SAH, double visit)

  56. Lynda

    Yeah, went thru Shadwells study. The shadow isn’t a shadow from a building.
    It’s from Saad’s daughter (if from anything). The building would cast a different shadow (to the rear).

    Of course I wasn’t there that day, the picture is taken from a mobile phone (police statement) so is of “low” quality, however the “blue polo shirt” Saad is wearing looks longer on one side…and doesn’t appear on his other side.

    The police said they were in Arnand that day. And the last picture was taken there. That isn’t the case.
    Bad reporting ? Bad police press release ? Police subterfuge for unknown reasons ? You tell me.

    If I were a family member, I would be “strongly” lobbying for an explanation / review of this case.
    And lobbying for it to be removed from the “local” prosecutor.

    From the failure to recover the youngest daughter from the vehicle….through to the release of the photo fit, this case is soooo mis-managed it is unbelievable . The “French way” ? Is that what they will claim ? It’s a disgrace.

  57. James, I really do understand your viewpoint, what I can’t follow is the ‘photo’ was in the Police file so arguably it wouldn’t be seen by anyone, why make it up, so precisely ?

    Is it really a photo from a mobile phone, would Granny at 74 years old be more likely to have a digital camera ? All I can say is that lasts nights Karl Zero implied she’d taken photos in Doussard…. I would need to do look again as to what equipment was used to take them.

    It is only personal opinion and observation, at her age it was less likely to be a mobile phone ‘cliche’….

    James, I am not content with the way this investigation has been handled, I live here and have done for many years with my French husband, in daily life I do not compare French life to British life, such attempts at comparisons are useless. Katie on here and of course on CM bemoans the system, I’m sure you also will be able to point a finger at differences good and bad (international traveller as you are).

    The system is what it is, oh to have the funds to mount a documentary that asked all the right questions.

    PS: it’s a shoe, a cheap ‘croc’ probably from Primark, Ikbals shopped there often, they didn’t have cash to be wasted.

    I bid you good evening.

    Some real ‘sky’ horrors of late, do you ever feel a change in atmosphere in your ‘jet set’ clients ? Are you taking anyone to NATO ?

  58. Lynda

    They say (the “they”) it was a mobile phone pic. I, like you, thought that’s odd.
    But it may have been Saad’s phone (still odd I think…. it’s a family holiday, a day out, why not use the camera).

    As you say, being an “ex pat” in different countries makes you see things differently.
    Certainly the police are different (and some times totally the opposite than what you expect…in a good way and a bad way).

    I was with a French pilot last week. You tend to live in each others pocket during your duty so you get to “know them” quite well (and I don’t fly with many French people) but was surprised at his attitude to be honest. I fly with many nationalities from all over the world so sometimes it’s a “shock” to have a sterotypical image “blown out of the water”.
    I can honestly say I have never met such a (trying to be) “superior”” person in my life who lacked basic “knowledge” of life and was incredibly “insular” than he …and he was only a First Officer ! God help him.
    P.S. Germans by the way are actually really witty ! And the Spanish love the English sense of humour.

    To your other point. Yeah there’s been issues with the “jet liner” world of late.
    Sad though it is, private flying seems to have had a boost. People feel “safer” I think. It’s not about the “luxury” as First Class on a scheduled airline can give you that (and a G5 is really just a fast caravan with leather seats at treble the cost), so they must “fear” something.

    The point is…. the French team in Annecy really need to “up their game” or pass the investigation on.
    I doubt they can up their game….so there needs to be a review. I’m surprised this hasn’t been called for yet.

  59. @ Lynda

    Thanks for your KZ synopsis.

    Mmmmmmm EUROPA! I want to say EUREKA! but I have no idea what this really signifies.

    “SAH THINKS his mother left him the house (?)” Was this ‘thinking’ of the wishful kind?

    PR of a man with a square face/jaw, looks like a GANGSTER Mr Muscle or his target?

  60. James, had a thought about that photo, leaving out the sunglasses/shoe bit.

    It’s an odd photo, my guess is that it is a crop from a much broader angle, cropped by BFMTV to bring the people forward.
    The cropping accounts for the poor quality, reduced pixels.

  61. The picture is 100% proof that WBM was overtaken by the BMW driven by SAH.
    Even though WBM cannot “positively and without doubt” say it was “that” precise vehicle.

    Without that photo the other witness statements released (other than that of LFR) become “very curious” indeed.

    There’s another “quirk” also.
    If there was a BMW 4×4 heading up that hill (at the time WBM was), then knowing this fact would be cause enough for that vehicle not to return along that same route. But to be “directed” across another route.

    But “that photo” along with LFR’s reported sighting means that it has to be highly likely SAH visited the Martinet TWICE on the same day…..and there is no reason for him to do that (other than “the cuddly toy” theory).

  62. James, I found this for you, says that it was taken on a camera or a phone. I’m questioning myself about it being cropped, it is such poor quality even if a photo of a photo, a scan would give a better result but that may well be a lot more difficult for the person who illegally acquired it from the Police file. I wonder how far along they are with their intenal inquiry ?

    http://video.lefigaro.fr/figaro/video/les-photos-de-la-scene-du-crime-de-la-tuerie-de-chevaline/3221238187001/

    I’m still not sure about the double visit, it very much relies on the ONF1 timings being accurate, 15:16 ish BMW 4×4 just below Le Martinet, a minute after the MC was at the same place…..

  63. So far all I now is that the “Mollier family” issued through their lawyers due to “the use of the photographs in the media”.
    Not sure “who” they are suing. The police or BFMTV ?

    Eric was “shocked and outraged” and ranted about “ethics in the media”.
    Which to be honest is quite something since it was Eric’s investigation team that leaked them in the first place !
    They “leak” what they want…and are shocked when their leak is broadcast.
    And he has the nerve to talk about “ethics” !

    You can write quite a long list of “Eric’s Fails” in this case. It would read like a script of a “Keystone Cops” movie.

  64. I think they have dropped that internal enquiry long ago. It was just Maillaud playing the drama queen, pretending to be upset over the lack of ethics in the leaking gendarmerie. If it is someone who lacks ethics in this case it is Maillaud (together with the killer of course).

  65. Lynda

    Re the “double visit”.

    If there was not a “double visit” then LFR’s “timing” AND “sighting” is wrong !
    Lets face it, you might get the “time” wrong…. but can you actually “make up” seeing the BMW and family in it ?

    And this is where the photo (and it’s location) comes in again.
    That 15.17 picture places the BMW driven by Al Hilli behind WBM.

    Without “that photo” you could argue either of two things.
    1. WBM did not see a BMW driven by SAH, he only saw a “large vehicle” pass him by.
    Or 2. LFR saw a BMW with UK plates head towards the Combe D’Ire that was not the Al Hilli family.

    Take both those scenarios….
    If WBM was passed by a “BMW 4×4” not belonging to SAH, then….
    SAH was at the Martinet BEFORE WBM entered the Comb D’Ire route.
    And ONF1’s statement is “incorrect”. He saw SAH and he did not see a BMW 4×4.

    Or…. LFR mistook a light grey/silver BMW 4×4 for a maroon BMW 5 series.
    And there was a child in it !

    But BOTH can not be correct.

  66. P.S.

    The “third” possibility is of course the “double visit” theory.
    This connects the “statements” from LFR, WBM, ONF1 together.

    ONF2 should have seen the MC, SAH and SM ….and can confirm that ONF1 was working up the Combe D’Ire.
    Further (and importantly) he can confirm that he saw WBM and therefore confirm that he was the “departing vehicle” mentioned by WBM.

  67. Rizet is cool! To me it is clear (what I have already thought for a long time)

    (perhaps the bike location is as in the aerial photo, near the barrier … I think so)

    – SM got off his bike (near the barrier)
    – Perhaps even talked to X, or saw him coming

    – SM runs away
    – X, standing near the barrier/bike fires 2 times (2 casings/douilles), and hits SM in the back
    – SM falls, somewhere near the future track of the BMW
    – X goes towards SM and fires 2 more, in the heart and eye

    at this moment we have 4 shots, 4 hits into SM … it must be evident that SM=target!

    – X redirects aim towards SAH, who is getting in the BMW
    – X hits Zainab in the shoulder (intentionally? or astray?)

    – SAH does reverse – break – reverse

    … this (break) he does probably because SM’s body is ‘in the way’ and/or X is ‘in the way’? Perhaps even to try to run X down

    Anyway … up to now we have 5 shots fired!

    If we take the latest count (not KZ) we have 21 shots fired, with 15 around the BMW … that leaves 6 at another location … and I have just accounted for 5 (!) of those 6.

    This means that X used the rest of his ammo AFTER SAH got stuck.

    – X walked quietly towards the stuck BMW
    – X used 2 or 3 to kill SAH
    – X changed mags and walked around the BMW and simply used pretty much all his ammo on the inside of the car
    – X reserved some last bullets for the already dead SM

    This means to me that the amount of ammo is not an issue. X had enough ammo (out of habit or otherwise) and only used it when the opportunity arised (or even the necessity of putting the SAH out of their misery)

    With the first 4 bullets into SM I will not go for SAH=target. SM was the target, and to me SM was the ONLY target.


    SAH did drag SM. Suppose X was near SM’s body to get something or to check or whatever. At that moment SAH could have tried to run over SM+X

    We know that SAH dragged SM, so if X was near SM it could be that SAH just missed X

    SAH completed the arc but got stuck.

    But … if the above happened, X surely would be furious, as SAH had tried to run him down, to kill him

    As SAH’s attack had failed AND he got stuck … he was trapped, and had no defense/options against the fury of X
    SAH’s failed defence/attack was a cause that X (rage)killed SAH and the women


    I will tighten the above to the following:

    SAH did NOT want to escape without Zainab!!!

    – SAH was in the car
    – Zainab was outside

    SAH would NEVER escape without Zainab. N-e-v-e-r!!!!

    So, why did SAH ‘escape’?

    Because it was not an escape, but an ATTACK. An attack at X

    SAH, while in the car (and waiting for Zainab, who was hit and down?) saw that X was near the body of SM. SAH saw in a flash a possibility to crush X. SAH reversed like a mad man (yes, reverse-break-reverse) … but he missed X, and because of his speed, made the arc and got stuck

    SAH was NOT escaping … he was attacking!

    But the attack failed, it (further) enraged X, and X rage killed the SAH’s after SAH got stuck with the BMW

  68. It is difficult to believe it’s the last photo, because:

    1 – If the family comes from Arnand, they had most beautiful pictures in the village. The “last” is not a very pretty site. Why take a picture there ?.

    2 – If the family was going to Arnand certainly is not the last one, in Arnand they had much more beautiful places.

    Understand?

  69. Rizet confirmed that it was the last (15h17) picture. It is not a question of believe, it is a fact (unless Rizet lies)

  70. Max… Bacchus…

    I don’t believe the “last” Al Hilli photo.

    And it is highly possible that SAH was attacking the gunman (as per Max’s new scenario).

    I think SAH was at the Martinet “for sometime” and was getting ready to leave.
    WBM “saw” (was passed by) a vehicle coming up the hill….and that was a “BMW 4×4” (or another “large vehicle”).

    Re “the missing bullets”. See the “yellow markers” from the “crime scene” photo.
    I thought they were “sockets”, but they are the only ones ! So they are “bullet strikes”.

    P.S.
    Has anyone found it funny that Eric (who thinks the key to the case is Al Hilli) made arrests in the local area ?
    Bit of a “tell” that (for the poker fans out there !)

  71. James, I have always thought that SAH turned at the sawmill, Fillion-Robin would not have been able to see which way he went.

    14:40 ish F-R – SAH, F-R says child was in the front seat, RHD British Reg plate.

    SAH hesitates at ‘Dangerous Road’ sign, takes hairpin at sawmill, goes along route du Moulin all the way to Doussard, flower house photo, building opposite Le Serraz campsite.

    Drives back up to Arnand along route du Moulin, takes other photos, last one at the odd shaped building, overhanging the stream with its little weir. Holiday snaps are often odd in hindsight.

    Drives to the sawmill, goes up route Forestiere to Le Martinet, passes WBM and SM.

    Between the 14:40 and the murders, near to an hour has passed.

    Neither ONF1 or ONF2 see SAH. Between the two they were around Le Martinet at 15:15 and 15:30 ish.

    This does not exclude that SAH did indeed have a meeting at Le Martinet and was just sussing out where it was beforehand without taking the road that for a car becomes a dead end.

    Max and I don’t agree about this.

    As for the ‘last’ photo, they did NOT know it was going to be the last to be taken in their lives ?

  72. @Lynda

    If ONF2 is at the hairpin at approx 15.30 AND it was them that past WBM on the route…
    …..then simply by default ONF2 has to have seen/passed SAH and SM.
    They are between ONF2 and WBM….and they did not leave (unlike the motorcyclist).

    Interestingly, WBM has never stated the vehicle coming down was an ONF vehicle.
    It is an unconfirmed assumption.
    We assume this because ONF1 stated “the BMW 4×4 (he saw) must have gone over the hills” (and far away) and so did not return down the route, the vehicle that passes WBM (by default) is the only other known vehicle there, that being ONF2.

    Has there been any official comment as to the progress of the ONF2 ?
    Other than Eric’s ever cryptic “they saw no (dead) bodies in the car park”.

  73. Actually James, it is the ‘must be ONF2’ that intrigues me, logic says it is except ONF2 say they didn’t see SAH and they didn’t see SM, had they turned off at the gravel track, 900 metres from Le Martinet, quite a wide entrance to start with, it then goes all the way down to Arnand, ending up at the rear of the ONF worker Roland Delumeroz house, Google Street View Land Rover outside and van in the garden.

    In that 900 metres, they go through an empty Martinet, see SM, they turn off and see no more, SAH is below that 900 metres turning, already overtaken WBM, SAH will overtake and arrive at Le Martinet marginally before SM.

    You are correct, WBM has never said it was ONF, they have logos on the sides of the vehicles, he said a big car/4×4 dark (maybe he said green – I’d have to check), if it was the Citroen Visa Van it most likely WASN’T ONF, or it is ONF1, he didn’t see WBM, maybe the latter was having a pee.

    It was Maillaud who planted the ONF seed, something along the lines of it was probably one of the many forestry vehicles that were circulating in the area.

    Just for fun – take your pick out of todays Press articles, so many contradictions:

    http://www.bing.com/news/search?q=chevaline&qpvt=chevaline&FORM=NWRFSH

    Just an idea, by the way the style of MC described by the various witnesses combined testimonies doesn’t exist, human brain and memory is an odd thing and like our debates over Chevaline subjective.

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