Chevaline Massacre: (Old) Recent Revelations – by Tim Veater (13.10.13)

Recent revelations pose more questions.

In the Daily Mail on 10th October 2013, David Allen suggested that Sylvain Mollier, the French cyclist, had confided to a close Annecy friend that "he feared he would be shot". Allen puts this down to reprisal for a crime of passion.

He says: "A close friend of the late Mr Mollier has now told the local Essor newspaper in Annecy: ‘One day he told me that he had to be careful when he walked down the street, that he feared he would be shot. This was because he was a ‘seducer’ with a number of lovers beyond the one he was living with, sources told l’Essor."

He adds: "As Mr Mollier climbed the picturesque mountain road where he would meet his death, he received a call from hairdresser Lydie Ringot, his ex-wife.” He apparently answered the call and said he would “ring back”.

(http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2451934/Were-British-Al-Hilli-family-gunned-Alps-NOT-target.html#ixzz2hc7FUEKZ )

In view of this, the determination of the local prosecutor to rule out Mollier as intended victim, from the very beginning (he stated on the 6.9.13 that he was “99.9% certain” Mollier was uninvolved in any way other than as unintended victim) appears even more curious.

Should not Eric Maillaud EXPLAIN why he has taken this position and not even published a photograph of the victim, which must surely be the most basic of police procedures? Was it to reduce the number of people coming forward with potentially damaging revelations or for some other reason? Surely his early defence of his position that, “families deserve some privacy”, cannot justify this serious oversight?

So now to add to all the "congruences" listed in an earlier article here, we can add this one. Both principal male victims, with only a few years between them, both avid cyclists, held presumably well-founded fears for their lives, and indeed lost them together in a remote location in highly suspicious circumstances.

Now how COINCIDENTAL is that?

Is it rational to believe Mollier's extreme fear would turn on love trysts, or Al Hilli's on a brother's animosity? Argument, confrontation, machination, even perhaps physical violence but shooting to kill? And if so why the additional victims. Would not the culprit have ensured only the individual was targeted? Is it not more likely that the cause was far more serious and involved all of the victims?