A BRITISH family gunned down on holiday in the Alps were targeted at random by a madman, experts think.
Saad al-Hilli, 50, wife, Iqbal, 47, and her mum Suhaila al-Allaf, 74, were shot dead in their BMW on a mountain road in Chevaline, France, in 2012.
Saad al-Hilli was gunned down with his wife and mother-in-law in the French Alps in 2012[/caption]
The couple’s daughters, Zeena, four, and Zainab, seven, survived the attack, which police think was carried out by a mentally unstable lone gunman[/caption]
The couple’s daughters, Zeena, four, and Zainab, seven, survived the attack, which police think was carried out by a mentally unstable lone gunman.
A French cyclist was also killed in the attack.
A British psychologist appointed by French cops to investigate the murders concluded the shooter was likely to be a man aged between 30 and 40.
The unnamed expert told a French newspaper: “I envisage the theory the perpetrator acted due to their own motives independent of the victims.”
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A cold case unit is now reviewing the killings.
Al-Hilli had pulled over into a lay-by near Lake Annecy when he was killed.
At the time of the killings it was thought that he could have been the primary target due to his work in aerospace engineering and science and technology.
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