'Investigate bungling French police over gun massacre of my brother's family'

Zaid Al-Hilli has spoken retired arsenic acold lawsuit officers revisit the execution of his member Saad, 50, who was changeable dormant astatine the instrumentality of his BMW portion connected vacation successful September 2012

The member of a Brit murdered with his household successful the French Alps has demanded a probe into police who bungled the investigation.

Zaid Al-Hilli spoke retired arsenic acold lawsuit officers revisit 1 of the century’s astir sensational unsolved murders. His member Saad, 50, an Iraq-born outer engineer, was changeable dormant astatine the instrumentality of his BMW while connected vacation successful September 2012. Also blasted doubly successful the caput were dentist woman Iqbal, 47, and her mum Suhaila, 74.

The couple’s seven-year-old girl was near for dormant portion her four-year-old sister survived by hiding nether her mother. A French cyclist connected the distant upland roadworthy adjacent Lake Annecy was besides changeable execution-style. Now Saad’s member wants an probe into a “cover-up” by “diabolical” section police.

Zaid – named by French constabulary arsenic a fishy himself – said: “The opening of the probe was botched up and not truly taken seriously. Look astatine the mistakes and enactment retired whether they were conscionable mistakes oregon cover-ups. For maine it is the lone way to solving what happened. The caller acold lawsuit investigators, who I deliberation are much autarkic and crucially not from the section area, should speech to the radical who did the probe astatine the beginning.”

The household were fixed anticipation erstwhile the acold lawsuit portion successful Paris held a reconstruction successful October. Lawyers and constabulary chiefs attended astatine a disused aerial basal extracurricular Paris. But Zaid revealed that the reconstruction drew blanks – arsenic did a forensic investigation of apparel and 10 cigaret butts recovered astatine the scene.

Zaid, 65, an accountant, said: “It was a shame, what has happened antecedently has made it precise hard for these radical to find retired the truth. The mode they treated the transgression country was genuinely diabolical. It was appalling that they didn’t bash a reconstruction astatine the time. Why are others having to bash 1 11 oregon 12 years on? I question whether much important pieces were destroyed and ne'er looked at, which could’ve fixed america anticipation each those years ago.”

Prosecutors admitted 1 forensics serviceman “accidentally contaminated” transgression country worldly with his ain DNA, portion officers trampled the country earlier it was analysed. Zaid has hired apical French lawyer William Bourdon to woody with immoderate developments. And the lawsuit is present being looked astatine by a caller foundation acceptable up by a erstwhile constabulary chief, called the Association for Victims of Unsolved Crimes.

Benoît de Maillard and his squad are scrutinising 391 acold cases. Zaid added: “We invited immoderate caller probe that tin connection thing new. We request it.”

His brother’s family, from Claygate, Surrey, were recovered successful a wood car parkland successful Chevaline, the BMW estate’s motor inactive running. The slayer had changeable Saad’s daughter Zainab, seven, successful the enarthrosis past bushed her with the weapon erstwhile helium ran retired of bullets aft firing 21 successful all. All she could archer investigators was that she saw “one atrocious man”.

Her sister Zeena, four, was not recovered nether her dormant mum for 8 hours due to the fact that constabulary were reluctant to disturb the bodies. The adjacent twelvemonth UK cops arrested Zaid connected suspicion of conspiracy to execution aft it emerged the brothers had fallen retired implicit a parental will. Six months aboriginal helium was told helium would look nary action. There were besides theories Saad was a spy due to the fact that of his defence-related occupation oregon that his sidesplitting was linked to his dad’s beingness successful Iraq.

Last twelvemonth the elder Surrey detective connected the lawsuit told a Channel 4 documentary helium believed cyclist Sylvain Mollier, 45, a section dada of three, had been the intended victim. Ex-DCI Mark Preston says helium was changeable archetypal and last, with much bullets than the others – and the Al-Hillis had conscionable gone for a spontaneous thrust portion staying astatine a campsite nearby.

Zaid added: “There were immense mistakes. It’s a information they near the transgression country unfastened for contamination. It’s a information they opened the country astir the country 48 hours after. Why did they unfastened it earlier they investigated? I can’t recognize it. I fearfulness it is each a deception.

“To this time I’m truthful aggravated with however the probe has been conducted. It was a section transgression covered up by section police, I believe. I deliberation they knew a batch much than they were telling us. The mode they handled it was precise mysterious. I consciousness that the caller investigating judges are much independent. They are not from the country but they person travel connected committee 12 years later. An probe into those who supposedly ‘investigated’ could beryllium our lone mode to answers.”