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Disappearance of little Émile: is the criminal trail called into question?
After nine months of an unsuccessful investigation, multiple police custody and searches, the little boy’s bones were found by a walker less than a kilometer from his grandparents’ house.
(France 2)
After nine months of an unsuccessful investigation, multiple police custody and searches, the little boy’s bones were found by a walker less than a kilometer from his grandparents’ house.
It all started in the house where little Émile was to spend his summer vacation, with his grandparents. On July 8, 2023, it is 4:30 p.m. and according to his grandfather, that is when the child escapes his vigilance and disappears. At 6:30 p.m., the alert was given. Dog teams, police, firefighters and volunteers organize hunts. 800 people are mobilized, but Émile remains nowhere to be found.
In the following months, residents were questioned, telephones exploited and searches led to nothing. Five months later, there is still no trace of the child. On December 7, the gendarmes launched a new operation. Last week, the scenario, a sort of reconstitution with the family and witnesses was organized, but still no response. It was a walker who discovered the bones belonging to little Émile, on Saturday March 30, just one kilometer from his grandparents’ house.
We can “reasonably rule out” the trail of the fall
On the day of the disappearance, two witnesses say they saw Émile near the hamlet’s fountain, the place where the dogs lost track of him. Did he then venture onto the massifs where he allegedly fell? “With the thermal cameras on the helicopters, the hunts, the Saint-Huberts, which are extraordinary dogs in terms of research, in this kilometer near the village, with the time that it lasted, I think that it is a hypothesis that can reasonably be ruled out., says Jean-Charles Fombonne, former colonel of the Gendarmerie and head of the judicial division. There remains the criminal trail or the car accident. All hypotheses are considered by the investigators. Nine months later, the mystery continues to hover over Haut-Vernet
