As if the matter could not be worse, the newspaper nice morning made a new revelation, on Thursday April 4, 2024. A few days earlier, we learned of the death of little Émile, missing since July 8, 2023, in Haut-Vernet (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence), while he was on vacation with his maternal grandparents. According to the daily, the latter were warned of the terrible news by the gendarmes, who went to their family home in Bouilladisse (Bouches-du-Rhône). But the same is not true for the content of the press briefing which took place on Tuesday April 2, 2024. That day, the public prosecutor of Aix-en-Provence, Jean-Luc Blanchon, indeed held a press conference in order to take stock of the current matter. It was then that the grandparents of the little boy, aged 2 and a half at the time of his disappearance, would have learned some detailsas discovering clothes belonging to Émile or the presence of small post-mortem fractures and cracks.
Grandparents wait for answers
According to nice morning and a source close to the matter“Grand parents […] had not been informed in advance of the content of the prosecutor’s press briefing on Tuesday in Aix-en-Provence.. They would therefore have learned live on television the latest advances in the investigation. If the couple’s lawyer, Maître Isabelle Colombani, did not wish to confirm these remarks, she nevertheless declared “[qu’]they are incomprehension after this press conference, and in the desire for answers. But they are also afraid of the answers, and of not knowing.” before finally concluding: “We can understand all these feelings.” For the moment, no response has been provided following the discovery of the first bones by a walker, on Sunday March 31, 2024. The Aix-en-Provence prosecutor himself recalled this in his press briefing: “We still cannot favor one hypothesis over another to explain the disappearance and then death of the child Émile”. On site, the investigation continues, looking for any clue that could shed light on what happened on July 8. According to Colonel François Daoust, former head of the Criminal Research Institute of the National Gendarmerie (IRCGN), other bones would need to be discovered in order to determine the time of his death: “until more bones are found and above all the zero point, the place where little Émile could have fallen, fainted, or been deposited, We won’t move forward.”.