New twist in the death of Émile. Nine months after the disappearance of the little boy aged two and a half, in the hamlet of Haut-Vernet (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence), bones were found by a hiker, this Saturday March 30, near the place where the child had disappeared. Since this discovery, additional research has been carried out. According to information communicated by THE Parisian This Monday, April 8, the gendarmes from the Marseille research section reportedly found new bones belonging to Emile in the same area.
As the daily clarified, it is still impossible to know whether it was a murder or an accident. “Research is progressing well and continues“, said a source close to the investigation. The first bones found accidentally by a hiker were “less than two kilometers from the hamlet of Haut-Vernet as the crow flies and analyzes reveal that they were left exposed to the open air, without being buried“, clarified The Parisian. So, did the child have an accident while escaping his grandfather’s vigilance or was he the victim of a murder? The investigation will tell us…
Death of Émile, this hunter from Vernet convinced that the body had been moved: “I remain surprised that…”
For many, it seems strange that so many people have passed by the child’s body since the search began last summer. This is particularly the case of Stéphane Chevrier, president of the Vernet hunting company. Asked by Le Figarohe said to himself “surprised no one came across the body or at least some traces during all these months, if he was really there”. According to him, the body of little Émile was moved during the investigation.
On March 30, the hiker would have found the bones in the Auches valley, “a steeper place with thicker vegetation” than in the rest of the sector. Hunter and specialist in difficult trails, Stéphane Chevrier confirms that the difference in altitude is significant and that “the water gullies to accumulate at the bottom and form these famous torrents“. Despite the obstacles it presents, the path still remains frequented by walkers, hunters and gatherers. For the expert, the trail to follow would be that of the displaced body – which would explain why it was not not been found for eight months.”There are significant hollows in the upper part of the valley. We can imagine a fall in one of them, possibly fatal, and say that if the place was not searched, it could have sheltered the body before the waters moved it later,” he said.
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