French minister defends police over Alpine shootings aftermath
- 12 years ago
The quiet French Alpine mountain road where four people were brutally murdered.
Police are due to carry out autopsies on the bodies of the four gunned down in Annecy - a man and two women in a British registered car and a French cyclist who apparently chanced on the scene.
Two Britons survived - a severely injured 8-year-old girl who had been shot and beaten and a 4-year-old, thought to be her sister, who had hidden for hours among the bodies, believed to be her parents and her grandmother.
She wasn't found by police until shortly before midnight on Wednesday - 8 hours after they arrived on the scene.
Police say the delay was because the child was well hidden and investigators were keen to preserve the crime scene.
On Friday France's Interior Minister Manuel Valls defended the police, saying he had full confidence in their abilities.
The owner of the car - who was found dead at the wheel - is believed to be Iraqi-born Briton Saad al-Hilli from Surrey.
Police are due to carry out autopsies on the bodies of the four gunned down in Annecy - a man and two women in a British registered car and a French cyclist who apparently chanced on the scene.
Two Britons survived - a severely injured 8-year-old girl who had been shot and beaten and a 4-year-old, thought to be her sister, who had hidden for hours among the bodies, believed to be her parents and her grandmother.
She wasn't found by police until shortly before midnight on Wednesday - 8 hours after they arrived on the scene.
Police say the delay was because the child was well hidden and investigators were keen to preserve the crime scene.
On Friday France's Interior Minister Manuel Valls defended the police, saying he had full confidence in their abilities.
The owner of the car - who was found dead at the wheel - is believed to be Iraqi-born Briton Saad al-Hilli from Surrey.