such a mess won't look so good on the CV if it was a professional

even if someone else loaded the gun there will probably be prints on all those ejected casings

how many guns hold that many bullets (other than sub-machine) ?
it must have been heavy to hold fully loaded.

Glock 17 can hold 17 rounds

According to Sky News and BBC there may be family financial dispute involved.
The info came from the French police force who had been tipped off by the British police.
If so there must have been some serious money involved to go to such extremes.

well that sounds a bit like the old Cosa Nostra attitude - kill all the family, prevents anyone coming back for revenge.

but whatever it was, it was a very messy operation, probably more than 1 person for all those casings. and someone had to know they would be there at that time, although better to have done it at a villa or similar, not in public.

a lot of speculation in the media about an inheritance dispute in the family.
Property in France, Switzerland, Spain and Iraq are said to be at the centre of the dispute...

Here we go...

ALL four victims of the French Alps massacre were shot twice in the head in a military-style execution, French prosecutors disclosed yesterday.

They suffered what the SAS call a “double tap”, suggesting the British Al-Hilli family and a cyclist died at the hands of a killer or killers with an army background.

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/...tim-shot-twice

It sounds like a state sponsored assassination, not very well executed, with the perpetrators either back home or hiding in their embassy until it's safer to travel home. One witness did say that he saw a man of Arab appearance driving madly away from the scene of the shooting.

I saw on the news that some 60 people were killed in Iraq only yesterday.

The plot thickens.

Houses around the family home evacuated.

Armed police and the Bomb Squad on site !

It doesnt.
IMO its all about the money.
i.e. the inheritance.

Doubt if it's that simple IMHO after what's gone off this morning.

Also mention of a strong shed in the back garden fitted with all manner of hi tech security devices and a hi power cable running into it.
He did ask the neighbour to keep an eye on the back of the house.
Maybe he's been printing his own money in there or storing Semtex ready for the revolution ?

The mind boggles.

Much ado about nothing.
No hazardous substances found according to the latest report.

Maybe the French Central Directorate of Interior Intelligence bumped off the cyclist because of what he knew of their dodgy deals with Arab states and used a http://unblinkingeye.com/Guns/F1935S/f1935s.html (UK press say it was a 7.65 caliber pistol) , Family witnessed it and had to be silenced.
Or maybe the Frenchie and the Arab were having a dodgy meeting with Iranians and ...............endless possibilities.

well the Radio 4 3pm news says that they have found nothing suspicious so forget that part of the conspiracy theory

inheritance, ineritance, inheritance
who profits from the death of these 3 people ?

I wonder if the conspiracy theory nutters have started on this one yet?

About an hour after it was announced