A septuagenarian was found charred the week in his car in Chevaline, Haute-Savoie, near the scene of the killing which left four people dead eight years ago.

The Annecy prosecutor's office confirmed Monday that it was a suicide unrelated to the 2012 drama.

The man whose body was found last week near a burnt car in Chevaline, Haute-Savoie, committed suicide, we learned on Monday from the Annecy prosecutor's office, confirming information from the daily regional Le

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This 70-year-old resident of Doussard, a neighboring town, was sick and in depression, said the same source.

No link to the Chevaline massacre

His body was "strongly charred at the level of the legs" when the firefighters discovered it near a car set on fire in the combe d'Ire, a forest sector where the Chevaline massacre had taken place on September 5, 2012, quadruple murder remains unsolved to this day.

The investigators immediately stressed that there was nothing to link the two cases.

Eight years ago, Saad al-Hilli, 50, a British engineer of Iraqi origin, his wife of 47, and his mother-in-law, 74, were shot several times in their car on a small road. forest near Chevaline.

A cyclist from the region, Sylvain Mollier, had also been killed, a probable collateral victim.

One of the daughters of the al-Hilli couple was seriously injured while the second, hidden under her mother's legs, miraculously escaped unharmed.

The two sisters who survived the killing will be able to be heard

The Annecy prosecutor's office also confirmed on Monday that the British authorities had given their consent for the two sisters, now teenagers, to be heard again in the context of the investigation.

These hearings will be made by British investigators and communicated to the French courts, said prosecutor Véronique Denizot during a program broadcast last week by RTL radio.

In the memory that the two children kept of this traumatic episode, many hope that a possible detail unknown to this day could advance the investigation, at a standstill, but caution remains in order eight years after this enigmatic killing.