It has been almost a decade since the bullet bodies of a British-Iraqi family and a French cyclist were found on a deserted road in the French Alps on September 5, 2012. Saad Al-Hilli, 50, his wife, Iqbal, 47, and her mother, Suhaila Al-Allaf, 74, were found dead in their red-brown BMW. The lifeless body of Sylvain Mollier, 45, a French cyclist, was next to the car. Zainab, the couple’s 7-year-old daughter, was found in front of the car, a pistol whipped with a gunfire in the shoulder and her 4-year-old sister Zeena was hiding under her mother’s body in the back seat. .
More than 800 witnesses from France, England, Italy, Switzerland and Iraq were heard in the stalemate investigation, which was full of conspiracy theories, ranging from reports that patriarch Saad Al-Hilli was a money launderer. for Saddam Hussein millions due to rumors about secret bank accounts and a dispute between families, the assumptions that it was an ambush of a secret meeting between Mollier and Al-Hilli. In 2013, Al-Hilli’s older brother was accused of ordering the beating of his brother, but later released due to lack of evidence of any killer.
The blood-stained evidence painted an unsolved mystery. Patriarch Al-Hilli was shot inside the closed car, but had the cyclist’s blood on his clothes. The 7-year-old girl found outside the vehicle had the cyclist’s blood on her feet.
The case, although still open, has remained inactive for years.
But this week, a bizarre connection to the assassination attempt on French hypnotist Marie-Hélène Dini, 55, near Paris could help solve the case. Dini learned that last year she easily escaped the assassination of a coup team. French police say she was hired by her professional rival for about $ 85,000. The rival, who was also arrested, said he only hired men to supervise her, not kill her.
Police were called to Dini’s home in the Parisian suburb of Creteil in July last year when a crazy neighbor called two suspicious-looking men to throw the neighborhood. Police found the men, who were wearing black clothes and gloves, with a Luger Po6 pistol and a silencer placed in a car with false license plates. They told police they were on an “official mission” to shoot the hypnotist because of his alleged relationship with the Israeli secret police known as the Mossad.
Police detained the couple and found that they were being paid assassin, linked to other crimes for rent. They say the men, one of whom was a retired police officer, met through a “small group of Freemasons who had turned their hands to enter into successful contracts,” according to French media reports. Dini told police he had no association with the Mossad and has since left the Paris area.
Their weapons and ammunition were then analyzed to try to find a connection to the unsolved crimes. Two other crimes have already been linked to the affected team, and French police reported on Friday that the exact type of bullets in their loaded weapon, intended for the hypnotist, was used to kill the Al-Hilli family and the French motorcyclist in the Alps. Now, investigators are looking at who could have hired the men and whether Al-Hilli or the French cyclist – or both – were the intended targets and why.