He presented himself to police in Britain following the murder, denying media reports that the brothers were involved in a financial dispute over their father’s will. Police were on Monday questioning his brother Zaid al-Hilli for a third day, a source close to the inquiry told AFP. Hilli, a 50-year-old naturalised Briton of Iraqi origin, worked as a mechanical design engineer with a firm based in Surrey that makes commercial space satellites. Hilli, his wife and her mother, a Swedish national, were all killed by several bullets including two shots to the head as they sat in their car on a forested Alpine road.
Zeena, who lay motionless under her mother’s corpse for eight hours following Wednesday’s shooting, has also been unable to provide any significant information about the attack. “She was in an induced coma which she was brought out of on Sunday but she remains under sedation. “When the doctors give us authorisation we will be able to interview her in hospital but for the moment they are not allowing it,” Annecy prosecutor Eric Maillaud told AFP. Her four-year-old sister Zeena survived the attack unscathed after hiding in the family car. Zainab al-Hilli, seven, is recovering from a fractured skull and a bullet wound in the shoulder. Meanwhile the elder of Hilli’s two daughters - both of whom survived the attack - remained under sedation Monday and was unable to speak to investigators who hope that she can help them unravel the mystery. The high number of shots fired at the scene had led to speculation that there might have been more than one shooter. The revelation followed initial analysis of 25 spent cartridges discovered at the scene of the murder and bullets retrieved from the corpses of the four victims. In France, a source close to the investigation said that only one weapon, a 7.65mm automatic pistol that is believed to be relatively old-fashioned, was used in the shooting. A bomb disposal unit was called to the scene to carry out an assessment as a precautionary measure.”Ī cordon surrounding the area was lifted and neighbours were allowed to return to their homes, but the Hilli family’s house and garden remains taped-off while the search continues, police said.Ī British army Royal Logistics Corps bomb disposal van spent around two hours at the scene, an AFP photographer said. “The items were found earlier today when the search of the property was extended from the main building to outbuildings in the garden. Surrey Police, the force which is cooperating with French detectives on the inquiry, said it “can confirm that items found at an address this morning in Oaken Lane, Claygate, are not hazardous”. Police have been searching the family home for days for clues to the killings and were on Monday also spending a third day interviewing Hilli’s brother, who has denied being embroiled in a property dispute with the dead man. A French cyclist was also killed in the attack. The development was the latest twist in the killings of Iraqi-born Saad al-Hilli, his wife Ikbal and his mother-in-law in their car at a beauty spot near Annecy in southeastern France last Wednesday. Police evacuated neighbours in the commuter village of Claygate near London while the bomb squad checked what a source described as a “potentially explosive substance” before eventually giving the all clear. British army bomb disposal experts on Monday examined suspicious items found at the home of a family murdered in the Alps but found that they were not hazardous.
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