The revelations of Chained duck make a big noise. In an article published Tuesday March 19, 2024, the newspaper highlights the troubled past of Philippe V., the grandfather of little Emile, this 3-year-old boy whose disappearance has shocked the whole of France for more than eight months now. We thus learned that, the same day, the 58-year-old man was to be interviewed by the Aix-en-Provence public prosecutor’s office in a completely different case, dating from the 1990s. At the time, Philippe V. is a member of the traditionalist religious community of Riaumont, in Pas-de-Calais. “Brother Philippe” is a supervisor there, and is accused of having committed violence against minors there of which he was responsible. Between 2014 and 2017, several former students of the establishment filed complaints of rape, sexual assault and mistreatment. Uniquely cited as “assisted witness”, Emile’s grandfather had already been questioned in April 2018 by an investigator from the Lille judicial police. BFMTV obtained the verbal procedure of this hearing, during which the accused admitted having “kicked ass” And “sometimes slapped” or even “punches” during his three-year stay in Riaumont.
“The main thing for us is my grandson,” says Emile’s grandfather
Since the disappearance of his grandson, Philippe V. has been described in the press as a patriarch “character”“strict” And “blood”, whose profile raises questions. And although Riaumont’s affair is in no way linked to that of Emilethese revelations caused a lot of ink to flow, so much so that the little boy’s grandfather decided to break his silence to react to them. “We are used to these filthy logorrhea. Don’t worry about us. The main thing for us is my grandson”he declared to M6, Wednesday March 20, 2024.
In the process, his lawyer also spoke with our colleaguesas well as on RTL: “These people are already cruelly struck by what is happening to them, and there, we do not hesitate to drag Mr. Vedovini through the mud to make a link between this Riaumont affair, and the affair of the disappearance of little Emile .” Me Isabelle Colombani adds that his client is “totally collapsed” by this media coverageand reminds us that it is “neither suspect nor heard in the context of simple police custody” with regard to the investigation into the violence committed in Riaumont.