Neighbours have said that Dirk Raats, a Dutch national, had threatened the family with guns before and that he and his wife had made the sign couic , or slitting of the throat, at them.
Dutch neighbour Dirk Raats, 71, has been formally charged with 11-year-old Solaine Thornton s murder and the attempted murder of her parents Adrian and Rachael in France.
Mum Rachel Thornton and her husband Adrian were both severely injured when a 71-year-old neighbour allegedly opened fire on them during a barbecue in their garden in France