The mainstream media for the most part has moved on. But there are a few more gleanings to be had, of perhaps the most interesting comes from the Daily Mirror, which labels al-Hilli an extremist on the grounds that he was against the war in Iraq, disapproved of the behaviour of Israel and had doubts over 9/11 – which makes a great deal of the population “extremist”. But the Mirror has the only mainstream mention I can find of the possibility that Mossad carried out the killings. Given Mr al-Hilli’s profession, the fact he is a Shia, the fact he had visited Iran, and the fact that Israel heas been assassinating scientists connected to Iran’s nuclear programme, this has to be a possibility. There are of course other possibilities, but to ignore that one is ludicrous.
Which leads me to the argument of Daily Mail crime reporter, Stephen Wright, that the French police should concentrate on the idea that this was a killing by a random Alpine madman or racist bigot. Perfectly possible, of course, and the anti-Muslim killings in Marseille might be as much a precedent as Mossad killings of scientists. But why the lone madman idea should be the preferred investigation, Mr Wright does not explain. What I did find interesting from a man who has visited many crime scenes are his repeated insinuations that the French authorities are not really trying very hard to find who the killers were, for example:
the crime scene would have been sealed off for a minimum of seven to ten days, to allow detailed forensic searches for DNA, fibres, tyre marks and shoe prints to take place.
Nearby bushes and vegetation would have been searched for any discarded food and cigarette butts left by the killer, not to mention the murder weapon.
But from what I saw at the end of last week, no such searches had taken place and potentially vital evidence could have been missed. House to house inquiries in the local area had yet to be completed and police had not made specific public appeals for information about the crime. No reward had been put up for information about the shootings.
Behind the scenes, what other short cuts have been taken? Have police seized data identifying all mobile phones being used in the vicinity of the murders that day?
The idea that the French authorities – who are quite as capable as any other of solving cases – are not really trying very hard is an interesting one.
Which leads me to this part of a remarkable article from the Daily Telegraph, which if true points us back towards a hit squad and discounts the ides that there was only one gun:
Claims that only one gun was used to kill everybody is likely to be disproved by full ballistics test results which are out in October.
While the 25 spent bullet cartridges found at the scene are all of the same kind, they could in fact have come from a number of weapons of the same make.
This throws up the possibility of a well-equipped, highly-trained gang circling the car and then opening fire.
Both children were left alive by the killers, who had clinically pumped bullets into everybody else, including five into Mr Mollier.
Zainab was found staggering around outside the car by Brett Martin, a British former RAF serviceman who cycled by moments after the attack, but he saw nobody except the schoolgirl.
Her sister, Zeena, was found unscathed and hiding in the car eight hours later.
Both sisters are now back in Britain, and are believed to have been reunited at a secret location near London.
There are of course a number of hit squad options, both governmental and private, which might well involve iraqi or Iranian interests – on both of which the mainstream media have been very happy to speculate while almost unanimously ignoring Israel.
But what interests me is why the Daily Telegraph choose, in the face of all the evidence, to minimise the horrific nature of the attack by stating that “Both children were left alive by the killers”? Zainab was not left alive by design, she was shot in the chest and her skull was stove in, which presumably was a pretty serious attempt to kill a seven year-old child. The other girl might very well have succeeded in hiding from the killers under her mother’s skirts, as she hid from the first rescuers, and then for eight hours from the police.
The Telegraph article claims to be informed by sources close to the investigation. So they believe it was a group of people, and feel motivated to absolve those people from child-killing. Now what could the Daily Telegraph be thinking?
I suppose the video that has been posted in August 2014 shows that
“Stan” Christian Maillaud is still alive.
I’d like to find out more? I’d love to find out some additional
information.
The French State seem to want to stop Stan and his wife and associates from naming paedophiles.
If true, why wouldn’t the French state want paedophiles named?
Generally I don’t learn article on blogs, owever I would likke to say that
this write-up very compelled me to check out and do it!
Your writying taste has been surprised me. Thanks,
quite great post.
New documentary in french pay attention at 26.51 to 27.02 is that new footage or reconstruction ?
http://www.rts.ch/emissions/zone-ombre/6047414-tuerie-de-chevaline.html
The Family of Mollier has a named brief, first time we’ve heard that.
She mentioned the Pharmacie in Grignon.
If you don’t understand French is there some way of getting the script?
Shelock
i think that i already did a very good investigation on the maillaud family approx 2 years ago. i really think that they are brothers or at least cousins and that their family roots are in southern france.
Could you pls print the the names of his grandparents?
@BB using google translate I copied this part about the family
“His maternal grandfather, the Basque Raymond Paluat was – supported by his wife, Bertha Rutily Corsica – more resistant incurred during World War II.
He commanded an intelligence network in North Africa, with which he proceeded to regularly exfiltration Jews.
He was imprisoned by the Nazis two years, but should leave alive at the end of the war.
The great uncle Stan Maillaud Robert Maillaud, Hussar officer, died in front against Nazi tanks.
He had an older brother, who survived him longer:
Maillaud Pierre, aka Peter Bourdan his nom de guerre; paternal grandfather Stan Maillaud.
AFP journalist, he joined General de Gaulle on the day after his famous call, upset by the death of his younger brother.
He participated in the creation of the show “The French speak French to” BBC and animated during the four years of occupation, instilling courage in a desperate resistance, while educating resistant.
Despite the crucial role that was his, and the bombings which were the daily that he shared with London, he felt that he should also share the danger soldiers Landing; and the day came at the same time as the “voice of London” was silent.
Pierre Bourdan landed with his stripes as lieutenant in the Leclerc Division.
Party intelligence mission, he was captured behind enemy lines, to be deported in cattle wagons.
He escaped and was again intercepted and left for dead in the rubble of a building shelled by enemy artillery section, where he found refuge in his run.
Miraculously unscathed, as the two companions who accompanied him on the run, he returned to the Leclerc Division to participate in the liberation of Paris, and then continue its offensive into enemy territory, and release prisoners of concentration camps.
Pierre Maillaud was famous and revered by his compatriots to the point that began in the aftermath of the war, a political career.
He was thus MP, then Minister of Ramadier government with three portfolios; the Youth and Culture, which was an opportunity for him to inaugurate the Festival de Cannes and create the Avignon Festival; the Youth and Sports, which was an opportunity to promote scouting; and the Information.
There, he worked for the freedom of the press, including removing the famous “prior authorization.”
This initiative did not bring him luck; A few months later, he was “drowned” in a sailboat ride, off Lavandou, in summer 1948.
His body recovered several weeks later still allowed experts to conclude that the time … … pulmonary congestion!
He was given a state funeral, after being murdered by his own state at the age of 39 years.”
Son grand-père maternel, le Basque Raymond Paluat, fut – épaulée par sa femme, la corse Berthe Rutily – un résistant plus qu’engagé durant la deuxième guerre mondiale.
Il commandait un réseau de renseignement en Afrique du Nord, avec lequel il procédait régulièrement à des exfiltrations de juifs.
Il fut enfermé deux ans par les nazis, mais en sortît vivant à la fin de la guerre.
Le grand oncle paternel de Stan Maillaud, Robert Maillaud, officier Hussard, mourut au front face à des chars nazis.
Il avait un grand frère, qui lui survécu plus longtemps :
Pierre Maillaud, alias Pierre Bourdan de son nom de guerre ; grand-père paternel de Stan Maillaud.
Journaliste à l’AFP, il rallia le général de Gaulle le lendemain même de son célèbre appel, bouleversé par la mort de son jeune frère.
Il participa à la création de l’émission « Les français parlent aux français » de la BBC, et l’anima durant les quatre années d’occupation, insufflant courage à une résistance désespérée, tout en renseignant les Résistants.
Malgré le rôle crucial que fut le sien, et les bombardements qui étaient le quotidien qu’il partageait avec les londoniens, il estima qu’il devait également partager le danger des soldats du Débarquement ; et le grand jour arriva en même temps que la « voix de Londres » se tut.
Pierre Bourdan débarqua avec ses galons de lieutenant, au sein de la Division Leclerc.
Parti en mission de renseignement, il fut capturé derrière les lignes ennemies, pour être déporté dans des fourgons à bestiaux.
Il s’évada, puis fut à nouveau intercepté et laissé pour mort sous les décombres d’une bâtisse pilonnée par une section d’artillerie ennemie, où il avait trouvé refuge dans sa cavale.
Miraculeusement indemne, comme les deux compagnons de cavale qui l’accompagnaient, il réintégra la Division Leclerc pour participer à la libération de Paris, puis poursuivre son offensive en territoire ennemi, et libérer les prisonniers des camps de concentration.
Pierre Maillaud était célèbre, et adulé par ses compatriotes au point qu’il entreprit, au lendemain de la guerre, une carrière politique.
Il fut ainsi député, puis ministre du gouvernement Ramadier avec trois portefeuilles ; celui de la Jeunesse et de la Culture, qui fut l’occasion pour lui d’inaugurer le Festival de Cannes et de créer le Festival d’Avignon ; celui de la Jeunesse et des Sports, qui fut l’occasion de promouvoir le scoutisme ; et celui de l’Information.
Là, il oeuvra pour la liberté de la presse, supprimant notamment la fameuse « autorisation préalable ».
Cette initiative ne lui porta pas chance ; quelques mois plus tard, il était « noyé » lors d’une balade en voilier, au large du Lavandou, en été 1948.
Son corps repêché plusieurs semaines plus tard permis tout de même aux experts de l’époque de conclure à… …une congestion pulmonaire !
Il eut droit à des funérailles nationales, après avoir été assassiné par son propre Etat à l’âge de 39 ans.
http://stanmaillaud81.over-blog.com/
nor me Michael Norton
3 Oct, 2014 – 8:07 am – or maybe a younger cousin? The likeness particularly that left (right viewed from the front) is a bit of a giveaway I would say. Can’t BB as our genealogy expert help us on this? (“Come in BB”)
I am convinced they are close relatives.
But what would it mean if they are close relatives.
Stan was last seen in Haute-Savoie, not far from Annecy.
Could a high up be putting the squeeze on Eric?
Michael Norton
3 Oct, 2014 – 3:12 pm the same reason the British and every other state doesn’t want it either I would suggest. Is it co-incidental that Stan appears to re-emerge when the Chevaline is finally put to bed? Was he arrested to protect him or shut him up or to intimidate certain family members? Stan was a loose canon and not afraid to take on the establishment, not the sort you would want shooting his mouth off if he knew people (paratroopers/forestry/responders/police/wider networks and connections) locally.
Stan Maillaud’s regiment served in Opertion Serval, and several other places and times when the French Foreign Legion was present. Was Stan working side-by-side with Legionnaires?
Pink
3 Oct, 2014 – 3:57 pm any chance of a bit of a synopsis. My French isn’t good enough I’m afraid. Haven’t watched it through but already I notice their graphics seem to be all out which after two years is pretty unlikely unless for a reason. Any new theories or explanations in this one?
Pink
3 Oct, 2014 – 7:11 pm not sure if this relates to Stan or Eric or both Pink? Could you clarify please? In any event we are dealing with a significant national hero here which colours the whole Maillaud issue doesn’t it?
Tim its from the link MN put up and called “Who is Stan Maillaud?”just drop the link into google translate to read it.
Just don’t rely on the translation 🙂
http://stanmaillaud81.over-blog.com/
@Tim oops sorry you mean the video I now realise just woken up forgive me .
I don’t speak or read French either so can’t help you with that one
someone else may .
Tim 04/10/14 12.34am
“How British people in high places covered-up for a Parliamentary paedophile”
Lord Greville Janner is a life peer after representing Leicester as a Labour MP for 30 years.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2779973/Report-reveals-extent-allegations-against-ex-MP-Greville-Janner.html
so not just a French cover up of child perverts,
the similarity though is high level covering up,
alright to bang up aging D.J. & entertainers
because that will keep the simple people content that something is being done about it.
Quote Dail Mail
During a two-hour interview at Leicester police station in the company of his solicitor Sir David Napley in the early 1990s, during which he answered ‘no comment’ to every substantive question put to him.
Napley, by the by, worked for several prominent figures caught up in sex scandals. They included former leader of the Liberal party Jeremy Thorpe, Conservative MP Harvey Proctor, and diplomat Sir Peter Hayman, a member of the Paedophile Information Exchange, a 1970s lobby group dedicated to legalising sex with children.
As I was going through the video on silent because I cannot understand french I started looking at the inserted shots wondering why they were there, the first one that caught my eye was 1.33 what is that about and what do you see?
Its the house where the last photo was taken I think but why that shot and not the photo one .
http://www.rts.ch/emissions/zone-ombre/6047414-tuerie-de-chevaline.html
Well, we now now who is the brief of Eric Devouassoux:
Marc Dufour
http://www.avocat-dufour.fr/
Well, we now know the brief of the family of Sylvain Mollier
Avocate Caroline Blanvillian
http://www.jurilyon.fr/avocat-blanvillain-caroline.html
so we should assume that Sylvain Mollier was a real person.
I hope Avocate Caroline Blanvillian has demanded the return of the five thousand Euro
racing bike that the police claim Sylvain was riding on the awful day.
It would seem one of Maitre Caroline Blanvillian’s specialities is accidents or death at work.
So we may assume Sylvain Moliier was still on the books at Cezus at the time of his slaughter.
Interesting indeed.
Perhaps he was doing a little job for Cezus on that awful day?
Three allies of France’s ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy were charged in connection with an investigation into financing the failed 2012 presidential campaign, French media reported on Saturday. Eric Cesari, Sakrozy’s former aide, Fabienne Liadze, the UMP (Union for a Popular Movement) party’s financial director and Pierre Chassat, former head of communications were indicted with forgery and abuse of trust, AFP reported.
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Maitre Caroline Blainvillian is an associate Lawyer with the firms owner
Droit pénal
du travail
Le Cabinet assure l’assistance et la représentation des Entreprises, de leurs dirigeants ou collaborateurs mis en cause par-devant les juridictions pénales et ce, tout au long de la procédure (gardes à vue, auditions par-devant le Juge d’Instruction, audiences par-devant les juridictions répressives).
Il traite des dossiers d’accident du travail, d’entrave, de discrimination, de harcèlement moral, et de toutes autres matières liées aux relations individuelles et collectives de travail.
Il a également développé une compétence en matière de droit de l’environnement et des installations classées et en Droit Pénal du Transport.
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So other than the owner of the firm
Caroline Blainvillian is the only other lawyer at that firm specializing in
Criminal labour law
Now isn’t that interesting
The nitty gritty is getting very much closed.
either she is interested in his employers who we have been told are Cezus
or he worked for some other organization?
If Sylvain Mollier was only a lowly welder
one wonders how he could afford or know of a top three hundred Euro an hour lawyer?