It has been more than a month since little Émile, two years old, disappeared in Haut-Vernet. Faced with the absence of a lead and faced with the surprising silence of the boy’s family, the investigators could bet on a new strategy in order to find new elements.
On July 8, a little boy named Émile disappeared in Haut-Vernet (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence) after escaping the surveillance of his grandparents. More than a month after his disappearance, the mystery remains intact and investigators struggle to find a solid lead to solve this troubling case. If the absence of evidence or compromising elements is considerable, the silence of the family of the little boy is also surprising.
It is true that since the announcement of the disappearance of Émile, his young parents, Colomban and Marie, astonish by their discretion. If they have never taken to the media to express their concern and their sorrow, they have also decided to continue their life and to resolve it with prayer, they who are very religious and very practicing.
Disappearance of Émile: a new strategy to solve the investigation?
If the whole of France is surprised by this discretion, the inhabitants of Haut-Vernet are also bewildered to see the parents and grandparents of Émile quietly doing their shopping or going to the swimming pool. “If I lost my grandson and the research was interrupted, I would have been in all my states, I would have used the journalists!” launches a resident of the village quoted in the columns of Paris Match.
Eventually, this unusual calm could benefit investigators who have decided to bet on a new strategy to move the investigation forward. “If the media pressure subsides, the perpetrator of a crime may feel more confident and make a small mistake that will betray him. And if the investigators are on a lead with notably wiretapped suspects, fewer details will loved ones, the more difficult it will be for the murderer to adapt his behavior” provides a criminal investigation expert to The Dispatch.
For the time being, the investigators continue to explore all the tracks and in particular those of a “revenge” or a family drama. We recall that Colomban, the father of little Émile is already known to the police for an assaulthe who is a very active activist in the local branch of the small group Social Bastion, an extreme right-wing association.