The “genetic identification analyses” of the bones found on Saturday made it possible to conclude that the body found is that of little Emile, who disappeared in July 2023 in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence.
The end of a mystery. The body of little Emile, aged just 2 years old and missing for 9 months, has been found. Saturday March 30, 2024, the national gendarmerie was informed of the discovery of bones near the hamlet Vernet, explained the Aix-en-Provence prosecutor in a press release. The magistrate specifies that the investigators immediately transported these bones “to the IRCGN [Institut de recherche criminelle de la gendarmerie nationale] in order to carry out genetic identification analyzes which made it possible to conclude on March 31 that these were the bones of the child Emile Soleil”, relays The world.
Kidnapping investigation
On vacation in his maternal grandparents’ second home, the boy was last seen by two neighbors on July 8, late in the afternoon, while he was walking alone in the streets of the small hamlet. de Vernet populated by only 25 inhabitants.
The investigation, first opened for “disturbing disappearance”, was entrusted to the investigating judges of Aix-en-Provence then reclassified as criminal grounds for “kidnapping and sequestration”, recalls the French daily.
While numerous searches had so far failed to find Emile’s body, on Thursday March 28, investigators organized a “scenario” which brought together 17 people – family members, neighbors and witnesses. — to retrace chronologically the evening of July 8.