If the four members of the Emile family placed in police custody have been released, the intra -family track is not excluded. Several relatives are still among the suspect potentials.
The police custody of the maternal grandparents of Emile, his aunt and his uncle were lifted on the night of Wednesday, March 26. They all came out free after 48 hours of hearing for “voluntary homicide” and “concealment of corpse”. Investigators remain convinced that a third party intervened in the death of the little boy, in particular following the head trauma suffered by the child and the displacement of the bones. The intra -family track is not completely “closed” either. The credit of 48 hours of police custody was, in addition, not completely exhausted: there are two to four hours which could, if new elements fell, be done later. According to the lawyer for the grandfather of Emile to Bfmtvthis interrogation made it possible to “give answers, to provide new elements”, which will now be studied closely by the investigators, the hearings having been fully filmed. Vehicles entered among grandparents are also still the subject of analysis.
According to Bfmtvthey would not be the only ones to have been heard this week. Another uncle from Emile, but a minor, would have passed in free hearing. He was present at the Haut-Vernet at the time of the child’s disappearance. “The police custody and hearings of several witnesses in the past two days are part of an investigation phase where it became necessary to confront the people most affected by the disappearance,” said the prosecutor this Thursday, March 27 at a press conference. “At the end of these police custody and in the light of all the elements gathered, the charges were not sufficient to lead to any indictment in this case,” he concluded.
17 people who stay at the center of the investigation
Other people were present at the Haut-Vernet during the disappearance of the child and some had been gathered a year ago, March 28, 2024, for a “scenario”. Investigators still focus on the roles of these people. “It is possible, indeed, that during this ‘scenario’, the author is present, but perhaps not,” said the lawyer for the aunt of Émile on Bfmtv. Among these people, there were obviously the grandparents of Emile and several of their children. At the time of disappearance, the family assures that they were busy around the garage to go back and forth. Residents, vacationers had also been invited. Two eyewitnesses who had seen Emile just before her disappearance were present. Emile’s parents had attended this situation.
This reconstruction also took place two days before the discovery of bones in the forest, reports The dispatch. Would the third party who would have intervened, would have become afraid of knowing this event and would he want to make believe in an accidental death? Another theory on the choice of this date is that of proximity to Easter, while Emile’s family is very believing. It could attest to a certain proximity between the guilty potential and the victim’s parents.