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The Annecy shootings, also the French Alps shootings or the Chevaline killings, were the shootings on 5 September 2012 of a British family and a French citizen on the ''Route Forestière Domaniale de la Combe d'Ire'' near Chevaline, Haute-Savoie, near the southern end of Lake Annecy. Four people were killed: an Iraqi-born British tourist named Saad al-Hilli, 50, his wife Iqbal, 47, her mother Suhaila al-Allaf, 74, who held a Swedish passport, and French cyclist Sylvain Mollier, 45. The al-Hillis' two daughters both survived the attack. One, aged four, was hidden under the legs of her dead mother in the rear footwell for eight hours even while the gendarmerie were on the scene; she was only discovered by specialist forensic investigators. The elder daughter, aged seven, was shot in the shoulder and also suffered a head wound; she returned to the United Kingdom on 14 September 2012. A potential motive for the attack that is being investigated is Al-Hilli's past in Iraq as an engineer on sensitive topics, as well as his work at the time of his death. Al-Hilli's work in the UK involved nuclear and satellite technology, whilst Mollier, who also worked in the nuclear industry, is also being probed as he may have been the primary target of the attack. The attack has been compared to the 1952 killing of biochemist Jack Drummond in the Dominici Affair.〔〔(Chilling similarities: Massacre of British family in French Alps echoes mass shooting of three Brits in same region 60 years ago; Tourists Sir Jack Drummond, wife Anne and daughter Elizabeth were all shot dead beside their car in the French Alps in August 1952 ), Daily Mirror〕〔(Huffington Post )〕 ==Description of the attack== The attack took place in a lay-by on the mountain-side road at about 15:45 CEST on 5 September 2012. 25 shots were fired in total.〔 Initial reports stated only one semi-automatic pistol was fired, though it was later reported that full ballistics analysis is likely to disprove this. The bodies were discovered by Brett Martin, a British ex-RAF pilot, who is a resident in France, while he was out riding his bicycle. He heard nothing of the shots.〔 Al-Hilli's eldest daughter, seven-year-old Zainab, was the first victim he saw when he arrived on the scene. She was stumbling into the road and collapsed in front of the British family's BMW car. Prior to the incident, the BMW was reversed sharply into the side of the lay-by, leaving marks which were still visible when the site was reopened to the public.〔 When the car was found by Martin, the engine was still running and the car was in reverse gear, the rear wheels spinning in the loose sand. The doors were locked. The deceased in the car were each shot twice in the head. The French cyclist killed near the car was Sylvain Mollier. It has been reported that he was shot seven times.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Annecy shootings」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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