Author: Piling » Thu Jan 10, 2013 9:41 pm
If they are professional killers they could have opened any kind of door, I agree. Then they have to climb up until the 1st stair. Then ring at the door or entering in the CIK without permission. But that was a bit risky to enter by force. 2 windows of the office (which has 3 rooms) are on the street La Fayette (one of the busiest and more animated street in Paris) : it was easy for one of the women to shout and calling for help.
So the most probable is that they were shot by surprise, without calling and shouting. Did they let enter the killer(s) or not ? If not, the killers could not guess in which room the 3 women were. I mean: you enter in the main reception room, at your right side you have toilets and after the kitchen. At the left you have a small corridor, which opens on a small bathroom, and 2 rooms : a bedroom and another office (both of these rooms have a window on the street).
The rooms could have been changed between offices and bedroom functions since the last time I saw the place but the flat should be the same : 3 main rooms with 2 opening on a busy street, next to the Train Station (Gare du Nord), at the first floor (they could have even jumped by the window for fleeing it was not high).
I don;t know where were the 3 victims in the apartment (the same room ? in different room ?), but no one in the building have heard people crying or calling or trying to escape (as what we know for the moment) So the murderer is a professional who shot quickly, who knows the place (but it is not difficult to have a map).
The door was not broken and after the murder, the killer closed it and kept the key with him. So he did know where was the key (or he could have threatened the women and asked it but let's remember that Sakine was a fighter,a military commander, she could defend herself and the others, made noise, not let the guy doing the job quietly and given the key before he finished the work).
For all these reasons I think that the victims opened the door and let the killer(s) enter and close the door. Then they were shot by surprise. Perhaps they thought it was journalists, political contacts (CIK was mainly for foreign people) ; or they knew the killers and did not beware.
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I don't affirm that one thing is true or not. I know the place very well and some scenario are impossible and others possible if we only consider the place of the crime.