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| France releases Alps murder sketch | |
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| French police have released a sketch of a man wanted in connection with the murders of four people in the Alps last year. | French police have released a sketch of a man wanted in connection with the murders of four people in the Alps last year. |
| Three members of a British-Iraqi family and a French cyclist were shot on 5 September near Lake Annecy. | Three members of a British-Iraqi family and a French cyclist were shot on 5 September near Lake Annecy. |
| Investigators say eyewitnesses saw the motorcyclist on the road leading to the murder scene. | |
| The artist's impression shows him sporting a goatee and a rare type of helmet that opens from the side. | |
| Saad al-Hilli, his wife Iqbal and her mother Suhaila al-Allaf were shot along with cyclist Sylvain Mollier on a remote forest road in Chevaline near Lake Annecy. | |
| The family's two young daughters survived the attack, one by hiding under her dead mother's skirt. | |
| 'Close to the scene' | |
| Police say the helmet the motorcyclist was wearing is particularly interesting as only 8,000 were made in the colour seen by witnesses. | |
| It is a full-face model that opens from the side to allow for conversations, without the rider having to remove the helmet. | |
| Despite checking with distributors, police have been unable to track the owner. | |
| The BBC's Christian Fraser in Paris says witnesses gave a description of the motorcyclist to police in the early stages of their investigation, but the artist's impression was not released for fear the suspect would go into hiding. | |
| "This is someone who was close to the scene during a time period that interests us," a spokesman for the investigation said. | |
| Police are also looking for a right-hand drive BMW 4x4 that was spotted close to the scene. | |
| Mr al-Hilli's brother Zaid was arrested by British police in June on suspicion of planning the killings. He has protested his innocence but admits the pair had fallen out over their father's inheritance. |