French police release man questioned about British family's murder


  • World
  • Friday, 14 Jan 2022

FILE PHOTO: French gendarmes block access to a road to La Combe d'Ire in Chevaline near Annecy, southeastern France, September 6, 2012. REUTERS/Robert Pratta

PARIS (Reuters) - French police have released a man who had been questioned over the 2012 murder of a British family and a cyclist in the French Alps, prosecutors said on Thursday.

Police on Wednesday detained the man for questioning as part of a new investigation into the killing of four people, saying they wanted to verify his whereabouts at the time of the killing.

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