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France’s cold case unit orders new DNA tests in unsolved Alps murders

France’s cold case unit orders new DNA tests in unsolved Alps murders

Deaths of members of British al-Hilli family and French cyclist in remote layby have baffled detectives since 2012

Detectives from France’s cold case unit have ordered DNA analysis of evidence in the unsolved killing of a British family and a French cyclist in a remote Alpine village 12 years ago.

Clothes belonging to one of the victims, cigarette butts found at the scene and pieces of the gun used in the killings are to be tested in the hopes of solving the mystery of the murders, described by the local prosecutor as “an act of gross savagery”.

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