“What we know is that we don’t know much. » This slogan would certainly be less effective for 24-hour news channels, but it would be the most accurate to summarize the hours of live, duplex and debate built on almost nothing in recent days. On BFM-TV in particular, the speculations and hypotheses surrounding the death of little Emile, whose skull was found and identified at the end of March, made it possible to fill entire days of air time.
Tuesday April 9, the discovery of new bones belonging to the child once again fueled the machine of the great void. “We don’t know precisely which bone it is”warns a journalist, while another recalls that“At this stage it is still impossible to know what happened to him”, and a third emphasizes that “all hypotheses are on the table [et que] caution remains in order”.
In short, nothing new in the last ten days, but that doesn’t stop us from talking about it for hours. Especially since, “BFM-TV exclusive”the channel found the hiker who is “fell on the skull of little Emile”. Failing to be able to broadcast – and rebroadcast – the interview of this woman who wants to remain anonymous – we understand – the circumstances of her macabre discovery are repeated in the smallest details. That she didn’t have a cell phone with her, that she cried a lot, that she decided to take the skull away, for fear that the bad weather would move it. We wonder about the slope of the path in question, we point it out on a map, we rehash what she saw, what she did, what she says… and doesn’t say. “She never says the word skull, she says “the thing”. Verbalizing the word terrifies her”explains the journalist on site, during his dozens of duplexes.
Morbid details
But, on BFM-TV, we are not afraid of words. At the bottom of the screen, the banner is persistent: “Hiker: “The skull in the middle of the path””. On set, we delve into morbid details. Laurent Valdiguié, journalist at Marianneconceived “a little skull looking at her, staring at her, it’s overwhelming” and imagines that “a child’s skull is as small as a handball”. The quality of the bones is debated, a thorax or a pelvis would be more interesting to find than a finger or foot bone… Speculations and hypotheses go round and round, the same questions recur. We invited a dog trainer and behaviorist to try to explain why “none of the tracking dogs found him”. But the guest doesn’t know any more, except that“a decomposing child’s corpse smells strong. It’s surprising he hasn’t been spotted.”.
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