French Alps murder probe switches to Surrey, England
French prosecutor has 'productive' talks with police in Surrey, England, over killing of family
British police say talks they held with the French prosecutor and the judge leading the probe into the killing of a British family in the French Alps last week were "extremely productive".
The attack in the village of Chevaline, near Annecy, saw Saad al-Hilli, his wife Iqbal, her mother and passing cyclist Sylvain Mollier shot dead.
The Hillis' seven-year-old daughter Zainab has been in hospital since suffering serious head injuries in the September 5 attack, which her sister Zeena, four, survived by hiding under the skirts of the dead women.
Surrey Police said they met French prosecutor Eric Maillaud, head of the investigation, along with judge Michel Mollin and members of the French paramilitary police and Britain's Crown Prosecution Service.
After arriving on Thursday in Surrey, southeast England, where the Hilli family lived, Maillaud said the cause of the killings lay in Britain.
"We are perfectly aware that Annecy is just the chance location of this drama and that it seems the origin, the causes and the explanation are here," he said in the town of Woking, Surrey.
On Thursday, the British man who discovered the victims of the shootings gave his first interview. He said the scene was like the set of a television crime show.