Eight years later, the police still have no serious leads to elucidate the murder of the al-Hilli family and Sylvain Mollier in Chevaline, Haute-Savoie.
Only the two daughters of the Anglo-Iraqi couple had survived this meticulous massacre: Zainab and Zeena, then aged 4 and 7.
Read also: Eight years after the killings, Chevaline shocked by the discovery of a new corpse
On September 5, 2012, on a forest road around Chevaline in Haute-Savoie, a cyclist came across a massacre scene.
Two men and two women were shot dead.
In a car registered in the UK, the al-Hilli family - father, mother and grandmother - are riddled with bullets.
Not far away, Sylvain Mollier, a cyclist out for a walk, also lies lifeless.
To read also: Return on the killing of Chevaline in three infographics
The two girls were not killed.
The eldest was severely beaten on the head, the youngest hiding in her mother's legs for hours until investigators found her.
At the time, the two girls had given little information.
One evoking the arrival of a "
bad guy
", the other telling to have heard "
noise
".
To elucidate this case, the investigators decided to interview the two orphans.
"
It is perhaps from a detail that the file can bounce back
", explained Véronique Denizot, prosecutor of Annecy, to RTL.
British investigators will hear the two teenage girls aged 12 and 15.
Their hope is that, years later, new elements may resurface from the memory of the only two witnesses.
Until now, they had been deemed unfit to be heard.
They still live in the UK, under a new identity.
The privileged local track
For eight years, several avenues have been considered.
That of a settling of scores on the bottom of a succession for this rich Iraqi family who had fled the regime of Saddam Hussein;
that of a political assassination of Saad (the father), an engineer who worked on British satellites;
that of free crime, without motive.
Among the only clues, the weapon used, an old Swiss customs pistol used in the 1940s. A collector's weapon rather than a hitman.
"
The question is without elucidation,
recognizes the microphone of RTL the prosecutor of Annecy.
And without hope of rapid elucidation
”.
However, for a little over a year, the investigation has been relaunched after gradually running out of steam.
"
Everything is sifted through, observed with a new eye,"
explains Véronique Denizot.
For the moment, only the local track remains.
I think she is serious
”.