If that's truly the case, then France's fingerprints are going to be all over this one.
If they don't have a ready-made Lee-Harvey-Oswald patsy already set-up to take the "lone gunman" blame, then this situation could rapidly get out of control.
But...
Why would he have waited this long before going to the press to complain about France's UN double standard (Iraq/Kosovo)?
It makes far more sense that he was covering for France/Germany; which would explain his silence for so many months as well as give the locals proper motivation for taking him out.