Since the disappearance of little Émile on Saturday July 8, 2023 in the hamlet of Haut-Vernet while he was in the family home of his grandparents, his parents. Marie and Colomban had not spoken. Very discreet since the start of the investigation, they finally decided to come out of silence this Tuesday, August 29 for the magazine Famille Chrétienne. The journalist who went there tells.
Saturday July 8, 2023 will remain a difficult date, Émile a 2 and a half year old little boy disappeared while he was in the garden of his grandparents’ family home in the hamlet of Haut-Vernet. While he was under the supervision of the latter, the little boy disappeared without a trace around 5.30 p.m. The family very quickly set out to find him, as well as the neighbors and the police. Important research devices have since been put in place unfortunately without success and the investigators are continuing their investigation. Totally silent on their side, the family of little Émile had chosen not to speak in the media so as not to disturb the work of the police.
However, this Tuesday, August 29, 2023, almost two months after the disappearance of their son, the parents of little Émile, Colomban and Marie, finally agreed to come out of the silence. Colomban and Marie agreed to express themselves in the very place where their son disappeared with a media that they chose Famille Chrétienne. The editor-in-chief who made the trip to interview them, Samuel Pruvot, gives his impressions: “ They try to live their ordeal in faith and they wanted to have an interlocutor who understands this parameter and who does not laugh about it. “. It’s on the microphone BFM TVthat the journalist chose to say more.
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“The shock in fact is the youth of the parents”
The editor of Christian FamilySamuel Pruvot, gives his first impressions from the meeting with the parents of little Émile: “I perceived an embarrassment and a fear while saying, but who is this gentleman (…) he is first of all a journalist and then I understood the next day what that meant. In fact, of course that between them, they speak about this disappearance, they speak in family, with their circle of friends. But they never spoke with a stranger, I’m a strangerhe admits. Very afraid of disrupting the investigation, Émile’s parents preferred to remain silent as if what they were going to say could hinder the progress of the research. They want to put all the chances on their side to find their little boy.
If there is one parameter that marked the journalist, it is the age of Colomban and Marie: “The shock in fact is the youth of the parents. I am a journalist, and I am also a grandfather. And I tell myself that in fact, these young people, they are the age of my eldest daughter, and therefore, their little Émile, he is the age of my grandchildren. And I think to myself: “How is it, so young, one can carry such a heavy cross?”” laments Samuel Pruvot on the airBFM TV.
He also explains that, as some media have suggested, the child’s family does not live in seclusion, “it’s a big family (…) there is passage, there are friends“, but they do not wish to be assailed by the press or by the curious, which is why they remain “cautious“. This does not mean that they do not wish to thank all the French people who have expressed their support for them: “Their main message is first of all to say thank you to all the French people who until today, and it continues, have mobilized for them. They made the effort to write, text, send flowersexplains the journalist and the family is really grateful to them.
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