THE brother of a British man murdered with his family in the Alps has accused French police of a cover-up.

       Zaid al-Hilli says the family was just in the wrong place at the wrong time when they were killed in September 2012.

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       Zaid al-Hilli, the brother of a British man murdered in the French Alps with his family in 2012, accuses the police of 'hiding the truth'

       His brother, Saad, 50, Saad’s wife Iqbal, 47, and mother-in-law Suhaila al-Allaf, 74, from Claygate, Surrey, were shot dead in their BMW.

       But Zaid, 62, has backed suggestions that French cyclist Sylvain Mollier, 45, who also died, was the real target.

       He told The Sun on Sunday he said: “The French authorities tried to hide the truth.

       "They are culpable in it.

       “I think they know who was behind it but there’s some influential people behind Mollier.

       "If there’s no resolution, I can’t see how one can get over it.”

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       Surrey businessman Saad al-Hilli is believed to have been an innocent bystander 3

       Saad, Saad’s wife Iqbal and mother-in-law Suhaila al-Allaf were shot dead in their BMW

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       Were family murdered in the Alps just innocent bystanders after all?