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Gun Found in Lake Might Link to 2012 French Murder Mystery
Forensic experts are testing the damaged handgun to see whether it matches the missing murder weapon in the unsolved 2012 case.
- On Monday, French prosecutors in Nanterre confirmed that British tourists discovered a Luger pistol at the bottom of Lake Annecy on August 20th, potentially linked to the 2012 murders of a British-Iraqi family.
- The 2012 Alps killings saw Saad, Iqbal, Suhaila, and Sylvain Mollier shot dead near Chevaline, while the two Hilli daughters survived an attack that has remained unsolved for 14 years.
- Forensic experts are examining the badly damaged pistol, discovered in two meters of water near the Solitaire Lac campsite where the family was staying, to determine if it is a Luger P06.
- Lake Annecy is only 50km from Switzerland, where the Luger P06 was used by the Swiss army until around 1960; around 60,000 P06s were estimated to have been manufactured.
- Exhaustive investigations over 14 years have pursued numerous leads including family disputes and potential motives, yet police have identified no suspect, leaving the case one of France's most prominent cold cases.
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Gun found in French lake may unlock Iraqi family murder mystery
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) — French detectives are looking into a weapon discovered from Lake Annecy, which might give a fresh clue in the unsolved 2012 murder of British-Iraqi engineer Saad al-Hilli, […] The post Gun found in French lake may unlock Iraqi family murder mystery appeared first on Iraqi News.
The weapon found corresponds to the Swiss semi-automatic pistol used to kill three members of a British-Iraqian family and a French cyclist.
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