The French authorities have been accused of a cover up by the brother of a British tourist who was brutally shot dead in the Alps alongside his wife and mother-in-law in 2012, in a mystery that remains unsolved to this day.
Saad al-Hilli was gunned down alongside his wife, Iqbal Al-Hilli, 47, and her mother, Suhaila al-Allaf, 74 in September 2012.
The al-Hilli's two daughters - seven and four - miraculously survived.
A cyclist, Sylvain Mollier, 45, was also killed in the massacre in the isolated layby close to Lake Annecy, in eastern France.
Now, Mr al-Hilli's brother Zaid al-Hilli has slammed the French investigation and claimed they went 'the wrong way' in their search for the killer, pointing fingers at him instead of local suspects.
He called the original investigation a 'deception - an attempt to deceive us'.
The three fatal casualties were brutally shot three times each with at least one shot to the head and the case has remained a mystery for 12 years.
During the bloodbath, the al-Hilli's seven-year-old daughter, Zainab Al-Hilli, was left for dead after being shot in the shoulder and beaten around the head.
Her sister, Zeena Al-Halli, four, escaped by hiding underneath her mother's legs and remaining motionless for eight hours in the back of the family's BMW.
Police found her alive.
Now Mr al-Hilli has called for investigators to search for more local suspects after he was wrongly arrested in 2013 in a bid to finally close the case which has puzzled police for more than a decade - while accusing French officials of a cover up.
'The original investigation was a deception, to attempt to deceive us,' he said, according to The Times. 'It was a local crime and has been covered up.
'They made allegations against me without any evidence. There was no attempt to look at a local motive right from the start.'
And progress could now be made after French police revealed earlier this week that DNA testing might be able to solve the baffling cold case.
Investigators from France's elite cold case unit in the Paris suburb of Nanterre have ordered the 'unsealing of the fragments'.
The clothes Sylvian Mollier and Zainab Al-Hilli were wearing on the fateful day are also going to be reexamined, along with some 10 cigarette butts found around the area.
More than two dozen spent bullet casings were found near their British-registered BMW estate car.
'It is hoped that new examinations will uncover DNA traces,' said an investigating source. 'If yes, then they will be sent for comparison with a national genetic fingerprint file which lists more than four million fingerprints, to see if there is a match.'
Yeah I got the Mithra chainmail in my AOL account back in 1998 - I know the arguments.
But Christianity presents us with something very wild - it takes the Messianic tradition of Jews which was hitherto interpreted as being about creating an earthly Kingdom that conquers the world and incorporates the gentiles into Israel (or makes the gentiles servants of Israel, who all become noblemen living in a heaven on earth, some interpretations)... and Christ says
"Yeah, but no - the Kingdom is purely spiritual. It's not temporal. The gentiles join us by worshiping God with us and living these truths - look, this Roman occupier has more faith than all Israel, because you guys are just terrible. You bicker over the law, and miss the total point of the law..."
And the Messiah is now about conquering the world through spreading the Gospel of loving God, and loving your neighbor as yourself, giving up your possessions and conquering greed, freeing yourself from hypocrisy; living in simplicity and supreme virtue, at peace with those around you, practicing non-violence, and now we don't even need any kind of ceremonial laws at all because we are living the virtues. And that's how the world becomes part of Israel - by adopting the great things abotu our religion - and that's also how you get to heaven, which is only achievable after death when I come again...
This is a very unique interpretation of the Judaism of the time - absolutely revolutionary.
Even if you want to say that all the miracles and 'signs' are a myth, I think that the "Mithra" angle is actually bad beacuse you could just say they came up with those signs and added them so as to be able to claim they are fulfilling the Old Testament, which was infinitely more relevant to the Jews who were the community that gave birth to the religion.
Yeah I agree - there is no proof, and if there was proof, it would ruin it, because we'd no longer be doing good and loving God and our neighbor because it is right, but we would be doing it with the expectation of receiving heaven...
We would no longer be living a spiritual life for the good of oruselves and others - in hope & faith - but we would be Capitalists engaging in transactions that we deemed profitable.