Émile was two years old.
Grandparents and uncles have been released, but family inquiry “is not closed yet.” Authorities suspect the “involvement of a third party in the disappearance and death” of the boy who disappeared in 2023. Here’s all that is known.
The death of little Émile remains a mystery, but everything points to the crime hypothesis.
The maternal grandparents and the uncles of the child-children of these grandparents-on Tuesday on suspicions of the 2-year-old’s murder, already were released for lack of sufficient accusations for an accusation. The four will have answered all the questions that were posed to them – but The family inquiry “is not yet closed”guarantees the accusation.
At a long-awaited press conference, the Aix-en-Provence prosecutor brought new details to the public about the disappearance and death of the 2 and a half year olds in Haut-Vernet village.
O Body of Émile Soleil was transported shortly before being found8 months after its disappearance, and its Skull suffered “violent facial trauma”appointment or.
“The conclusions of the experts made over several months now suggest that the clothes and bones found have been transported and deposited shortly before being discovered,” explained Jean-Luc Blachon.
In addition, the experts confirm “that The child’s body did not decompose in the clothes found in the forest“. Expertise to the body also allow” considering the hypothesis that the body has not remained in the same place “where it was discovered, in a wooded area about 1.7 kilometers from the village,” and in the same biotop during the decomposition process and not being buried. “
The child’s skull showed signs of “violent facial trauma,” said the head of the prosecution.
The prosecutor also said that it is possible that “a third person has been involved in your disappearance and death. ”
Chronology of facts
Émile on July 8, 2023, shortly after arriving at the grandparents’ house. For several days, the mountainous region was scoured in depth by the authorities, volunteers and dog teams, until, after 3 days, the hypothesis of abduction was raised. On July 13, the searches end, with the authorities to put all hypotheses on the table: abduction, murder, accident, run over and even wolf attack.
In mid -September, divers returned to looking for Émile, shortly after detectives sought him in a house near where his family lived.
The mayor of Le Vernet, François Balique, said at the time that the boy must have been taken by “A crazy, or someone Machiavellian”since no trace had been found.
Only in March 2024 is a human walker, two kilometers from his grandparents’ house in the village of the French Alps. It was the bones of Émile – but if they were so close, because they were not found before, it was the question that remained unanswered.
“They couldn’t have lost it with the dogs. In the fall there was even slaughtering trees. The wood cutters didn’t see anything either. It’s incomprehensible,” said the mayor.
The funeral took place on February 8 in Saint-Maximin-La-Sainte-Baume, in the presence of his family, including family members detained this week.
Little is known, too, about the connection of the case with the Suicide of the priest who baptized Émiledays before the detention of family members. Claude Gilliot, the 85-year-old Catholic priest, had disagreed with the child’s grandfather. “I think it all started with them,” accused the priest’s sister.
Tomás Guimarães, Zap //
