The two and a half year old boy had been wanted since his disappearance in July in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence.
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Bones belonging to little Emile, who disappeared in July in a hamlet in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, were discovered near Haut-Vernet on Saturday March 30, the Aix-en-Provence prosecutor’s office announced on Sunday. Genetic identification analyzes made it possible to conclude “that these were the bones of the child Emile Soleil”writes the prosecutor.
It was a person who was walking in the area who spotted the bones, the gendarmerie told France Télévisions, confirming information from BFMTV.
“Additional research” in the area
The gendarmerie will undertake “additional research” in the area where the remains of the boy’s body were discovered. The Criminal Research Institute of the National Gendarmerie will, for its part, continue its analyzes of the bones to try to clarify the circumstances of the child’s death.
The investigation, first opened in Digne-les-Bains for “disturbing disappearance”, was quickly entrusted to two investigating judges from Aix-en-Provence, then reclassified as criminal grounds for “kidnapping” and “sequestration “.
On Thursday, 17 members of the child’s family, as well as neighbors and witnesses, were gathered in Haut-Vernet for a scenario intended to retrace the course of the day of the disappearance.
