An arrest has been made in the unsolved murders of three British family members and a French cyclist who were shot dead in France a decade ago.
The arrest will allow investigators to carry out searches and check the individual's movements around the time of the killing of three members of the Al-Hilli family and a passing cyclist on 5 September 2012, prosecutors in Annecy said.
The individual, whose age and gender were not specified, was detained by police from the Alpine town of Chambery.
Saad al-Hilli, a 50-year-old Iraqi-born British tourist in France, was shot dead along with his 47-year-old wife Iqbal and her 74-year-old mother in a woodland car park close to the village of Chevaline in the hills above Lake Annecy.
Each was shot several times in their British-registered BMW estate car and more than two dozen used bullet casings were found near the vehicle.
The couple's two daughters, aged seven and four at the time, survived the attack, but the older girl was shot and badly beaten.
A 45-year-old French cyclist, Sylvain Mollier, was also killed after apparently stumbling upon the scene.
Almost a decade after the killings, French and British police have so far failed to make any real progress in the case despite a massive effort involving officers on both sides of the Channel.
Suspects previously arrested in connection with the case include an Iraqi prisoner, who was claimed to have said he had been offered "a large sum of money" to kill Iraqis living in the UK.
Mr al-Hilli's brother, Zaid, was also arrested on suspicion of murder in 2013 but was later told he would face no further action after police found there was insufficient evidence to charge him with a crime.
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