Russian newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda has found out that the suspects are Uzbek nationals who were making repairs in the apartment above. “Thierry often complained these workers flooded their apartment and he disputed with them. It seems that finally they got furious and came to his place themselves,” say close friends of the family.

Spinelli knew the workers and had no hesitation about opening his door.

The newspaper writes that his wife Olga became the first victim. She was in the bathroom at the time, and was strangled with a towel. The little girl was strangled as well and then the murderers stabbed her with a knife. Thierry Spinelli was the last one to die.

The murderers did not leave the scene immediately. They found a bottle of cognac in the apartment’s bar and spent the night drinking next to the blood-stained bodies. In the morning they set the apartment on fire.

During the funeral ceremony the coffins of Olga and Liza were open for the relatives and friends for them to say one last goodbye. Thierry’s coffin was closed, as so much of his body had been mutilated.