Re: Cultural integration seems to be falling a bit short in Europe these days. So much for the notion that Christian and Muslim live sided by side in perfect harmony.
I told you: it's not about Islam --it's about race. Just take the Flactif affair for instance. Xavier Flactif and his wife and children were not murdered in cold blood because they were Muslim... The Flactifs were exterminated merely because they were a successful, mixed-race family:
French cops crack murder case
17/09/2003 20:26 - (SA)
France - French authorities said on Wednesday they had cracked one of their country's most shocking murder cases in recent times, arresting a man who confessed to slaughtering a family of five in the Alps over a petty financial dispute.
David Hotyat, a 30-year-old unemployed car mechanic, admitted to investigators he killed Xavier Flactif, a 41-year-old property developer, then murdered Flactif's 36-year-old girlfriend Graziella Ortolano and the couple's three children, Gregory, 7, Laetitia, 10, and Sarah, 11, on April 11, state prosecutor Philippe Drouet told journalists.
Newspapers reported that Hotyat - who lived in a mountain chalet in the village of Le Grand-Bornand rented from Flactif, who lived next door - carried out the multiple murder after arguing with the developer over unpaid bills for work he had carried out for the family.
He confessed soon after his arrest early on Tuesday and led police to a nearby forest where what appeared to be the charred remains of the murdered couple and their three children were found.
On Wednesday, 80 police officers combed the surrounding area while DNA tests were conducted on the blackened skeletons.
One officer told Le Parisien newspaper: "Unfortunately, we have little doubt about the results. Everything points to them being what's left of the five missing people."
According to the newspaper, it was also DNA testing that gave Hotyat away.
Drouet on Monday revealed that the genetic traces of a sixth person had been identified among the blood stains and tooth particles belonging to the five victims found in their home.
Le Parisien said the forensic laboratory notified investigators several days ago that the DNA matched that of Hotyat, who was already the chief suspect after having told police he was the last one to see Flactif and his family alive.
Officers on Tuesday arrested Hotyat as well as his girlfriend and another couple suspected of possibly helping Hotyat hide the evidence of the crime.
Investigators had looked into several theories during the five months of their inquiry, including the possibility that Flactif - a northerner who had few friends in the region because of his reputation as a shifty yet ambitious businessman - had voluntarily disappeared, with or without his family.
The sighting of Flactif's four-wheel-drive vehicle on a forest road and then at Geneva airport in the days following the family's disappearance, and the theft of Flactif's computers and a box of business papers appeared to support that line of thinking.
But the discovery of a 6.35-calibre cartridge as well as the traces of the family's blood in their home and in their car quickly convinced police they were looking for a murderer.
With little to go on, they took DNA samples from 130 residents in the area in the hope it would lead them to their suspect.
In Le Grand-Bornand, inhabitants said they were both horrified and relieved by the developments.
"I'm not surprised that there were disputes over money between those two," one man who declined to give his name told AFP.
Le Parisien quoted Hotyat's father, Alain, as saying he could not understand why his son was arrested.
"It's tough to swallow, unimaginable. Especially when I think about the three murdered kids. It just isn't possible. David himself has two kids," he said.
news24.com
In French:
fr.news.yahoo.com
Pictures:
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Of course, French officials don't call it a "hate crime" --they claim David Hotyat and his accomplices murdered the Flactifs merely out of "jealousy".......
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