"David Off" wrote in message
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PG wrote:

The younger daughter had potential. She was at the Nationals (Coq
d'Or)
with mine in Alpe d'Huez, just a couple of months before the family
disappeared. Horrific.

I remember you were at l'alpe d'Huez. Laetitia Flactif is the
daughter
who was talented at skiing and had aroused some jealousy amongst the
locals.

A month short of her tenth birthday when it happened. Sarah just 11.
There are some really sick people about.

/.../

With land prices doubling over the last couple of years you can maybe
understand that this arouses strong passions when outsiders move into
a
fairly closed mountain community.


There's plenty of resentment these days, even in the Dordogne where
locals are begining to lose patience with the Brits moving in and acting
as if they own the place. Prices have been rocketing - perhaps the
relaxation of planning regulations in 2004 will help.

Overheard in a bar in St Foy the other week, some town hall officials
and a couple of locals discussing the fate of a large property that had
just come on the market. ".... Just so long as the English don't get
their hands on it......"

Pete