As part of the investigation carried out to try to find Émile’s body and understand what happened to him following his disappearance in July 2023, new bone fragments were discovered very close to the village of Vernet.
This is crucial information that the Aix-en-Provence public prosecutor has just delivered on the evening of Monday April 8, following the first discovery of bones on a hiking trail bordering the hamlet of Haut-Vernet (Alpes de Haute Provence). Almost 10 days after the young man’s skull Emile was found by a hiker whose behavior intrigues local residents, it is another part of the boy’s skeleton which was discovered. This is what Jean-Luc Blachon has just confirmed in a dispatch AFPconfirming information from several media including The Parisian, BFM TV And Le Figaro.
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In detail, we learn that the macabre discovery took place very close to the place where the first fragments and clothes belonging to Émile were seen and then collected on Saturday March 30. “A small piece of bone belonging to Emile was actually found in the same area as the clothes, below the skull”he indicated, while specifying that he had been formally identified by the Criminal Research Institute of the National Gendarmerie (IRCGN).
The accidental track favored by the investigators?
Given the time required for the analyses, we understood that this part of the skeleton of the child, aged two and a half years old when his grandparents reported his disappearance on July 8, had been found previously. More precisely, the discovery would have taken place “sometime last week”, “Wednesday or Thursday”according to The Parisian. On the other hand, “we do not know at this stage to which part of the child’s body it may belong”, underlined the public prosecutor in charge of supervising the investigation. Furthermore, these bones do not provide further guidance to investigators who would therefore continue to favor the accident theory.
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In Vernet, the town where Émile’s family has a property, several residents question various points of the investigation and cast doubt on this lead. Some believe that the child was kidnapped while others suggest that the boy was the victim of a murder. This is the case of the president of the village hunting society. “This surprises me a lot. I remain surprised that no one has come across the body or at least some traces during all these months, if it was indeed there”, he asked himself aloud this weekend. He can count on the mayor of Vernet to ensure his protection and that of his neighbors since the town was closed by a municipal decree until April 15 at least, to allow the hundred gendarmes dispatched to the site to continue their research without being disturbed.
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Other disappearance investigations underway
This is not the only disappearance investigation that currently concerns the justice system. Indeed, in recent days two bodies of young men aged 18 have been recovered in different places on French territory, that of Pablo and, probably that of Erwan… But in the second case, the autopsy has not been confirmed. not allowed to verify one’s identity and other analyzes must be carried out to achieve this.
At the same time, if investigators are still looking for Lina, the results of scientific investigations aimed at authenticating the bodies Véronique and Laurent who disappeared last month, in Madeira (Portugal), while they had left are awaited. while hiking.
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