Saad al-Hilli

A man held in police custody since Tuesday for questioning over his suspected involvement in the September 2012 shooting murders in the French Alps of three members of a British family and a French cyclist was freed on Thursday afternoon.

Prosecutor says Patrice Menegaldo, who killed himself last year, is chief suspect in 2012 murder of al-Hilli family and French cyclist.

Man released after being questioned by police over the shooting of British-Iraqi businessman Saad al Hilli, his wife and mother in 2012. 

Eric Maillaud says that two years after shooting of British family in French Alps it will take a 'stroke of luck' to solve the case.

Move comes amid claims murdered British woman Iqbal Al-Hilli's 'secret' first husband may have been poisoned on same day as Alps shooting.

State prosecutor says the 48-year-old ex-cop has 'no direct link' to murders though he is still under investigation for arms trafficking.

French authorities probing murder of British family and French cyclist say the 48-year-old local man had 'not appeared on their radar' until now.

The sketch is of a middle-aged man suspected of the shooting murders of a British family and a French cyclist near Chevaline in September 2012.

One year after a British family and a French cyclist were murdered near Annecy, British and French investyigators claim 'great advances' in the case.

The 54-year-old, who was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder, has been freed 'pending further enquiries', say British police.

Officers release image of dark-coloured 4x4 they want to trace in connection with murder of engineer Saad al-Hilli and three others in September.

Police investigating the September murders of a British family in the French Alps want to question Swiss gunman who killed three women on Wednesday.

A French cyclist was first target of "disorderly" gunman's massacre of four in the French Alps, including three Britons, French press reports say.

Ex-RAF pilot who found British family murdered in the French Alps tells BBC he feared a "nutter" with a gun was lurking nearby to shoot him next.

Media reports on the shooting of four people in the French Alps have been questioned by owners of the campsite where the al-Hilli family stayed.