MrBallen

They had cleaned it.

And so for Frazon, even though he did expect, you know, a clean room, it was still disappointing to walk in there and see it.

Because, you know, had there been any evidence still in here, by now it was very likely gone.

However, just then he heard one of his officers call out from the bathroom.

And so Frison went in there and found one of his officers pointing to where a used bottle of shower gel sat on the side of the tub.

Frison couldn't believe it.

I mean, he knew no other guests had been in this room since the shooters had been, which meant that gel was almost certainly theirs.

The maids must have missed it during their cleaning.

And so Frison told the officer to bag it.

I mean, it was a long shot, but he wanted to maybe get it sent off and tested for DNA.

On May 16th, 2014, investigators Frison and Massinio paced around Frison's office.

Every now and again, they glanced at a document that was sitting on the desk.

It had only been 10 days since Helene Pasteur and her driver, Mohamed Darwich, were shot outside a hospital in Nice, France.

Helene was still alive and in a coma, but Mohamed Darwich had died, which meant Frison was now officially leading a murder investigation.

Now, this was daunting for Frizan, but at the same time, he felt like they were close to breaking this case because that document on his desk told him that the shower gel they collected during a search of the shooter's hotel rooms actually did have DNA on it, and it had matched to someone in their system, a 24-year-old man named Samin Saeed Ahmed.

And through a series of phone taps, they'd also managed to figure out the name of Samin's accomplice.

a 31-year-old man named Al-Hayir Hamadi.

Now, these names were different from the ones that the hotel had given Frison, so clearly, the men must have used pseudonyms when they checked into that hotel.

Now, both of them did have prior criminal records, but like Frison had suspected, they were not like professional killers.

They were just petty criminals and drug dealers from a neighborhood in Marseille that had the highest crime rate in the entire country.