Marie Gicquel / Photo credit: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images Europe/Getty Images via AFP 21:38 p.m., April 17, 2023

The documentary "Chevaline", which retraces the events of the famous massacre of Chevaline, was selected for the "documentary series" competition during the CANNESERIES festival which takes place from 14 to 19 April. The series is also eagerly awaited, because the directors expose a rather innovative reconstruction of the facts.

The event of Monday, April 17 at the Cannes Festival is the world premiere screening of a documentary on the killing of Chevaline, a crime that is still not solved. On 5 September 2012, three members of the same British family of Iraqi origin and a cyclist were targeted near Annecy, Haute-Savoie. All four people were shot dead.

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More than ten years after the tragedy, this quadruple murder still remains unexplained. The culprit has not been identified, despite extensive investigations conducted jointly by French and British police. The affair had greatly affected the French.

An innovative reconstruction of the facts

The series is also eagerly awaited, because the directors expose a rather innovative reconstruction of the facts. Indeed, at the time, the police had used a 3D scanner to freeze the crime scene and the team of the series recovered this technology to be closer to the truth and begin its investigation.

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"There's an addictive side to 'Chevaline'. And then, it is a story that has marked all of us, the French, in all the ingredients it covered, which was atrocious. The series is likely to be interesting," says Mélissa Theuriau, member of the jury in the "documentary series" competition. It will be necessary to wait until this autumn to watch Chevaline on Canal +. Six episodes that could, perhaps, revive the investigation.