I think the most relevant issue is the surviving “badly beaten” 7 year old girl.
If you are eliminating witnesses and you have just shot three adults, it doesn’t sound logical that you would take the time to try to beat a 7 year old girl to death. Unless, of course, you get off on that kind of thing.
While poorly written, it also sounds like the beaten girl was found in the car. Nobody sets out to do a beating in a car. Too cramped. It sounds more like the beating took place outside the car, for whatever reason, and then the family was forced into the car and shot.
Another article says the girl was pistol whipped and shot in the shoulder and that the four year old escaped by being hidden under her mother’s skirts. “Badly beaten” may be journalistic hyperbole.
But details of a new ballistics report leaked to Le Parisien newspaper on Friday suggest that French cyclist Sylvain Mollier, a 45-year-old nuclear industry worker, was the primary target.
He was hit by the first stream of bullets before the ‘frenzied’ gunman turned his attention on Mr Al-Hilli, who had parked the family BMW in a layby close to the village of Chevaline.
Eric Maillaud, the prosecutor in nearby Annecy who is leading the investigation, confirmed that Mr Al-Hilli had got out of the car with Zainab, while denying that any conclusions had been drawn from the ballistics report. ...
Sand and gravel was, for example, found on the soles of Mr Al Hilli’s shoes - proving that he had been outside the car.
He then got back into the driver’s seat, locked the doors, and tried to get away - but in his panic put the BMW into reverse and became stuck in a muddy bank.
This allowed the gunman to fire bullets into the heads of all the seated adults, before returning to finish Mr Mollier off.
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