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| Man arrested in Alps murder probe | Man arrested in Alps murder probe |
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| French police investigating the killing of a British family in the Alps in 2012 have arrested a 48-year-old man. | |
| The man, from the Haute-Savoie region, has been placed in formal custody. | The man, from the Haute-Savoie region, has been placed in formal custody. |
| He was detained after the publication in November of an identikit image of a motorcyclist seen near the scene of the murders in a car park near Lake Annecy. | He was detained after the publication in November of an identikit image of a motorcyclist seen near the scene of the murders in a car park near Lake Annecy. |
| Saad al-Hilli, an Iraqi-born British citizen, had been found dead in his BMW car; his wife Iqbal, her mother and a French cyclist were also killed. | |
| Mr and Mrs al-Hilli's two young daughters survived the attack. | |
| The body of the cyclist, Sylvain Mollier, was found nearby. | |
| Mr al-Hilli and his family lived in Claygate, Surrey and were on holiday at the time of the attack. | |
| Hundreds interviewed | |
| More than 100 police officers in France and the UK have been involved in investigating the case and about 800 people have been interviewed. | |
| Surrey Police said the arrest had resulted from a line of inquiry in France and was not as a result of the investigation carried out in the UK. | |
| French prosecutors previously said the "reasons and causes" for the killings had their "origins" in the UK and they investigated an alleged feud between Mr al-Hilli and his brother Zaid over inheritance. | |
| Zaid al-Hilli denied involvement in the murders and accused French police of "covering up" the real target of the killings. |