I’ll be happy to be proved wrong, but as soon as a read the original story i thought this, highly educated, professionally successful, well integrated into British life and nominally muslim (caravanning through France doesn’t get much more normal). You know he’s going to be hated by his or his wife’s observant family. I mean look at the bad example he sets to the kids? They’ll all look up to this “corrupt” peer model.
Well let’s hope his 2 surviving kids are not shipped away to be “reprogrammed”.
Family feud may have led to executions in the Alps
A British family murdered during a holiday in France may have been the victims of a contract killing triggered by a family feud, investigators believe.
By Gordon Rayner, Henry Samuel and Duncan Gardham
10:00PM BST 06 Sep 2012
Saad al-Hilli, 50, his wife Iqbal, 47, and Mrs Hilli’s 77-year-old mother were all shot dead in a ruthlessly efficient execution-style killing inside their family car. A French cyclist who was “in the wrong place at the wrong time” was also murdered.
The Hillis’ seven-year-old daughter Zainab, who was battered and shot, and her four-year-old sister Zeena, who escaped the killers by hiding in a passenger footwell, were both under armed guard in separate hospitals last night for fear that the killers would return for the only remaining witnesses to the slaughter.
Police sources in France said that the “professional” nature of the murders, with three of the victims shot in the centre of the forehead, pointed to a contract killing, with a “family drama” one of the possible motives.
That motive is high on the list, probably the top one.
I don’t think it is an “honor killing”. It may be family feud, it may be something connected to his work (he was freelance engineer and in the past worked on military projects), it may be even peripherally connected to honor killing but it does not look like “simple” honor killing.
Interesting, Katia
Begs the question . . .who was he working for? Sounds like a hit to eliminate loose ends in regard(state sponsored jihad?).
we may never know, whole story is intresting.
I’ve heard from a trusted source,(he works in the same field as the male did) that the victim had worked for the MOD in Afghan. And it was a hit related to his work.
Perhaps the honor killing theory will not pan out after all, given the identity of the biker who ‘just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time’?
Authorities in France identified the fourth victim, a cyclist who apparently stumbled across the scene by chance, as Sylvain Mollier, a father of three who lived in the area and worked in the nuclear industry.
There’s not enough evidence one way or the other yet, but I’m extremely comfortable in saying that Islam has its fingerprints on this somehow…
Different sites offer additional details, often conflicting. To suggest a family member did this to the children is doubtful since the four year old was physically unharmed, having hidden under her mother during and 8 hours after – with the car still running when found. A family member would have known about the 4 year old child’s existence. The 7 year old was brutally beaten before being shot . . .suggesting an attempt to force information or items from the adults.
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One cyclist shot dead = 5 bullets
3 adults shot execution style = only 2 bullets each
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Interesting, we will have to wait for more facts about before we will know, assuming more facts come out.
. . .still think this is related to honor-killing?
Breaking on Twitter: UK police evacuate homes of al-Hilli neighbors
Sounds like the police are flailing about trying to find something to tell them who and why.