worrying disappearance of a two-and-a-half-year-old child, an important search system set up

A two-and-a-half-year-old child disappeared on the evening of Saturday July 8 at Le Vernet, franceinfo learned from the gendarmes, confirming information from BFM DICI Alpes du Sud. The child disappeared on Saturday around 5 p.m. while he was at his grandparents’ home, located in Vernet, north-east of Digne-les-Bains, in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence. An investigation is opened.

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It was the grandparents who alerted to the disappearance of the child. Field “around the house is steep”, report the gendarmes. Since the establishment of a warrant of disappearance, “about thirty soldiers, including members of the PGHM, the high mountain gendarmerie platoon”were deployed. “Several dog teams and two helicopters are also mobilized”specifies the gendarmerie.