Chevaline Massacre - A useful reference document.
(Compiled by Commentator Lars from comments of about 100 commentators.)
Note: The Arabic names have been transcribed in a number of ways in the media. If possible the spelling found in official documents in the UK and Sweden has been used below. Arabic women are often referred to with their maiden name e.g. Fashiha Shaban, below the name is given as Fashiha Al-Hilli (Shaban), with the maiden name in parenthesis.
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Time & Date: Wednesday 5 September 2012, around 15:30
Place: Lay-by Le Martinet on Route Forestière Domaniale de la Combe d’Iré, Les Bauges, 74210 Doussard, Haute-Savoie, France (3.3 km from the nearest village Chevaline)
Weapon: Luger P06, Luger manual
Ammunition: calibre 7,65 mm Parabellum, 21-25 bullets used, Sylvain Mollier shot 5-7 times, the other victims 2 times, the older girl (Zainab) shot once in the shoulder
Emergency call: first registered call 15:48 made by witness Philippe Didierjean/Bossy
Technical evidence: photos taken by the Al-Hilli family in Doussard 15:15 (?) outside this house in the corner of Rue de la Poste and Route d’Arnand
Car (Al-Hilli): BMW 5 SERIES 525d SE 5dr Diesel (2004) + Bürstner caravan
Bicycle (Sylvain Mollier): road bike (source E. Maillaud in the Suspect n° 1 documentary)
Witnesses.
Witness 1: William Brett Martin, born 21 June 1959, British originally from Auckland New Zealand, student at St. Kentigern’s College Auckland, living now in Brighton UK, house in Lathuile France (2km from Route Forestiere), latest known occupation: Boeing UK Training and Flight Services, former RAF-pilot (Phantom), married to Theresa Valerie Martin, born 12 November 1958, airline purser; owner of Silver Fern (Sussex) Limited (founded on 14 Feb 2006, http://france.silverfernsussex.co.uk), arrived on a mountain bike (Vélo tout terrain (VTT)), said he met a car and a motorcycle going towards Chevaline, for his story about the crime scene see the BBC interview below.
Witness 2: Philippe Didierjean/Bossy (name uncertain, Didierjean according to The Times, The Telegraph source for Bossy , born 5 April (?) 1971, described as an experienced local hiker (source Le Parisien), arrived in a car of unknown type with two female friends, according to himself to hike in Les Bauges, participates in The Alps Murders documentary (see below).
Witness 3: Laurent Fillion-Robin, born 1974, local builder, working at the time at the last house on Route de Chevaline in Chevaline, owned by British citizens Vivienne and John Beweek, saw the Al-Hilli family pass in their car and nobody following them, photo of Laurent Fillion-Robin, Short interview 0:16-o:40 (shots from reconstruction at 1:14)
Witness 4: Melvin (“the gentle giant”), surname unknown, born 1997, on a trial motorcycle, living in Marceau Dessous (?), father Franck, both heard shots lasting about 30 seconds
Witness 5: Denis Janin (sometimes spelled Jeanin in the press), shepherd, Col de Cherel, saw a motorcycle going in the direction towards Le Martinet at around 16:00 (source Le Parisien), wife Catherine Janin
Witness 6 (?): Sylvie Lecoeur, living in Chevaline, corner of Route de Chevaline and Chemin du Moulin, born 1963, met a white car (Peugeot 206/306?) speeding past her house at around 16:00, photo of Sylvie Lecoeur
Witness 7: Paul Ducher, Lise Ducher his wife, living on Chef Lieu, Route del la Combe d’Ire Chevaline, saw Al-Hilli’s car drive past; Philippe Didierjean and his two female friends, as well as an unknown cyclist on a mountain bike (VTT) who had been at the crime scene, stopped at their house on their way back from Le Martinet (source )
Victims.
Victim 1: Sylvain Mollier, born 26 February 1967, welder at Ugitech Ugine, born and living in Ugine, Savoie; just on a three-year leave of absence from Ugitech, living with Claire Nathalie Hélène Schutz, pharmacist, born 7 Mai 1983, mother to their son Louis; Pharmacie Schutz-Morange , valued to 1 401 000 €, transferred to her from her parents 1 October 2011 (source). Le Journal des Societes
Relatives of Mollier: 3 children: Leo (1996), Mathis (1999) and Louis (2012);
father Roger Mollier, born 1933, died 2011, worked at Ugitech;
mother Suzanne Mollier;
brothers Alain, Christophe, François;
sister Sylviane;
uncle Fernand Mollier;
ex-wife Lydie Ringot (Sclosa), hairdresser (Le Salon de Lydie), Ugine, born 1970, divorced Sylvain Mollier in 2006 (?), remarried to François R.;
Claire Schutz’s family:
father Thierry Schutz, pharmacist, born 15 Mai 1951 in Argentine Savoie France, living in Grignon (Albertville), (former) owner of Pharmacie Schutz Morange, 73 Rue Joseph Martin Grignon, and Pharmacie de la Léchère (?), in La Léchère;
mother Genevieve Schutz (Morange), born in 1954, orthopaedist working in the family’s pharmacy;
brother Laurent Schutz, biologist, Paris, born 11 August 1987;
uncle Pierre Morange, doctor and politician, living in Chambourcy near Paris, born 8 septembre 1956 in Clermont-Ferrand (Puy-de-Dôme) France.
Victim 2: Saad Al-Hilli, British citizen born 18 January 1962 in Baghdad Iraq, left Iraq in 1971 with the rest of the family, residence Oaken Lane Claygate Surrey, school Pimlico London and Kingston University, self-employed CAD-engineer, owned a house/ruin in rue Amiral Courbet, Saint Macaire France. There was an ongoing legal process between the two brothers Saad and Zaid Al-Hilli concerning the inheritance from their parents, concerning the house in Claygate as well as the money left by their father. Left England for France on Wednesday the 29th August, then stayed with his family in their caravan at Village Camping Europe (arrived on Saturday September 1st) and Le Solitaire du Lac Saint Jorioz campsite (arrived on Monday September 3rd), arrived at Le Martinet in his car with his family, Saad and Zainab left the car, the rest still in the backseat. They arrived at Le Martinet to take a walk on recommendation from the personnel at the campsite, nobody else was at Le Martinet when they arrived (source Le Dauphine ). Zainab then saw a single “baddie”.
Relatives of Saad Al-Hilli: surviving children Zainab (2005) shot in the shoulder and hit in the face (presumably with the gun), Zeena (2008), placed by Surrey Social Services for 10 months in a foster family until a court decided they were allowed to live with their aunt Fadwa Al-Saffar source;
brother Zaid Al-Hilli, born 2 February 1959 in Iraq, living in Chessington Surrey, accountant in Burhill Golf Club , late wife Geraldine M O’Reilly (married 1992, died 2007), son Sean O’Reilly-Hilli, grandchildren, arrested on 23 June 2013 for being involved in the murder, released on bail first until 31 July 2013, then prolonged until October 2013;
father Kadhem Al-Hilli, born 7 December1919 in Najaf in what was then the British Mandate of Mesopotamia now Iraq, British citizen, died August 2011 in Spain (last address Avenida Mejico, Mijas, Spain), lawyer and businessman, owned a poultry farm and a Kleenex factory in Iraq until the family emigrated, current account opened 1984 in the Swiss branch of the British bank HSBC Holdings P.L.C. (The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited), account contained around 1 Million € (source E. Maillaud), the family had left a property in Adamiyah Baghdad (in the Green Zone?), which Saad Al-Hilli unsuccessfully (?) tried to retrieve and sell in December 2003;
mother Fashiha Al-Hilli (Shaban), born 1932 in Iraq, died 2003 in the UK.
Victim 3: Ikbal Al-Hilli, British citizen, born 1965 in Iraq (alt. Doha, Qatar?), dentist, wife of Saad Al-Hilli since 2003.
Victim 4: Suhaila Al-Saffar (Al-Allaf ), Swedish citizen, living in Tumba south of Stockholm, Sweden, born 1938 in Iraq, PhD in biology London, married to Abdul-Amir Al-Saffar (?) (died May 2011), mother of Ikbal Al-Hilli (see above), Fadwa al-Saffar, PhD in pharmacology Reading UK married to Ahmed Mahmood (?), and Haydar Thaher Al-Saffar, born 1966, hospitalised in Britain at the time of the killings.
Investigators in France.
Examining Magistrates: Michel Mollin and Christine de Curraize
Prosecutor: Eric Maillaud, born October 1961 in La Flèche (Sarthe), France, prosecutor in Annecy since 2010, married; Dario Zanni (Commission Rogatoire Internationale).
Gendarmerie colonels: Colonel Bertrand François head of the Haute Savoie gendarmerie, career see Le Dauphine; Lieutenant Colonel Benoît Vinnemann, head of the local Annecy gendarmerie, career see LinkedIn, Photo,Vinneman to the left.
Documentaries and Videos:
Suspect n°1 ( Les secrets de la tuerie de Chevaline)
BBC Interview with William Brett Martin
BBC Crimewatch about Chevaline 29 April 2013
BBC-report, Witness who heard the gun fire (after 30 s)
Aerial images of the crime scene in the French Alps
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Eric Maillaud’s press conferences & interviews:
alt. Press conference September 6, 2012
Press conference September 7, 2012
Press conference September 8, 2012
Press conference September 12, 2012
Interview at Route Forestiere September 5, 2012
Interview at Route Forestiere September 5, 2012
Interview in Annecy, September 6, 2012
Interview by TV8 Mont-Blanc September 14 2012
Interview by TV8 Mont-Blanc September 19 2012
Interview by TV8 Mont-Blanc October 3 2012
Interview by TV8 Mont-Blanc February 8 2013
Some important & discussed (newspaper) articles, sorted by date:
Le Parisien: Les confidences d’un témoin du drame de Chevaline, published 9 September 2012
The Telegraph: France shooting: alleged violent past of son of Alps murder victim
Le JDD: Tuerie de Chevaline : les soixante dernières minutes, published 16 September 2012
M6: Lundi 17 septembre – 10h : un dernier adieu à la victime oubliée, published 17 September 2012
Le Messager: Tuerie de Chevaline : une équipe franco-britannique constituée pour faciliter l’enquête, lists what happened after the killings between 5-21 September 2012, first version published 5 September 17:46
Tuerie de Chevaline : la famille Al-Hilli ne se sentait pas menacée, published 14 October 2012
Le Parisien: Saad Al Hilli est sorti de sa voiture avant d’être abattu, published 19 October 2012
The Sun: 7-year-old survivor helping cops solve massacre, published 21 October 2012 (behind paywall)
Le Monde: Tuerie de Chevaline : les secrets d’une scène de crime, published 27 October 2012
Le Monde: Quadruple meurtre de Chevaline : l’arme du crime, published 30 October 2012
The Sunday Times Magazine: The little orphans of Annecy, published 2 December 2012
L’Essor Savoyard: Claude Antoine était aux premières loges de la tuerie, published 13 December 2012
Alps murder: Truth about Saad al-Hilli’s'family feud, published 23 December 2012
Le Parisien: Chevaline : la piste roumaine, published 10 June 2013
The Times: Aunt wins fight for al-Hilli murder girls, published 28 July 2013
Some important photos:
Detailed map of Rèserve de Nationale de chasse des Bauges (.pdf)
Le Martinet, helicopter view, day after
Le Martinet, helicopter view, day after
Le Martinet, helicopter view, day after
Le Martinet helicopter view, day after, close up car
Le Martinet, helicopter view, day after, car almost right from above
MG tow truck with car and bicycle long-shot view
MG tow truck with car and bicycle (?),close up
Le Martinet, helicopter view, day after, with bicycle (?)
Le Martinet, helicopter view, day after, marks on the ground
Tuerie de Chevaline : le déroulement des faits
Al-Hilli’s house in Claygate, Surrey
Al-Hilli’s caravan standing on the campsite Le Solitaire du Lac
William Brett Martin’s house in Lathuile, France
Other people mentioned in discussion:
1. Gary Aked, friend of Saad Al-Hilli.
2. Michael Mastro, former property magnate, fleeing from Seattle to Annecy.
3. Xavier Baligant, Belgian, born 1982, killed (shot) July 19 2011 at a resting area off the A31 highway near Nancy, parents live in Ardèche France, father retired policeman.
4. Christian Maréchal, police, born 1948, living in Chambourcy, killed 21 mars 2007 in his home, close friend to Pierre Morange (see family of Claire Schutz above), documentary: Grandes Enigmes Criminelles: Qui a tuer le chef de la police?
5. Grégory Mercier, born 1977, living in Annemasse, killed (shot) 6 August 2011 at a meeting place for gay men along the motorway between Annemasse and Annecy ( Etrembières), father retired policeman, documentary: Qui a tué Grégory?
6. Alla Hussein Mohamed, Fuengirola Spain, friend of Kadhem Al-Hilli.
7. Adlène Hicheur, physicist, with dual Algerian and French citizenship, accused and sentenced (2012) for having planned a terrorist attack on the 27ème bataillon de chasseurs alpins in Annecy, involved in Afghanistan.
8. Fraudster (?): Nigerian-born British citizen Abiodun David John, born 1980, allegedly trying to get into accounts in the name of Saad al-Hilli, never prosecuted after months of delaying the process by Abiodun David John, deported from the UK (?). The sums involved were about £300, with an attempt on another £2,000.
Some interesting details:
1. Roof rack on Al-Hilli’s car, Thule velo-vise bike carriers, photo , bought at Ebay, modified by Saad Al-Hilli to carry the family’s bicycles, according to Dutch woman they had a mountain bike on the rack when they arrived at the campsite (source , a mountain bike can also be seen in the caravan tent after the murder.
2. Another car, BMW X5, has been mentioned as seen by a ONF man.
Saad Al-Hilli
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