The grandfather of Émile Soleil is one of the four people suspected of being involved in his disappearance. It is not the first time that he has faced justice.
This Tuesday, March 25, four people were placed in police custody for “voluntary homicide” and “concealment of corpse” in the case of the death of little Émile. They are his maternal grandparents in whom he was during his disappearance, as well as two of the adult children of this couple. The four family members remain allegedly innocent. Searches are currently underway at their home in La Bouilladisse. Investigators want to confront the grandfather with his schedule on the day of disappearance and possible inconsistencies, reports The Parisian.
The 59 -year -old profile is studied closely by the police. Philippe Vedovini is presented as a convinced Christian, he even wanted to become a priest before meeting his wife. He is also described as a severe person. In an interview at Christian family In September 2023, he denied being a “dominator who terrorizes everyone”. Furthermore, it is not the first time that he has faced justice. He was heard as a witness assisted in 2018 in the case of the traditionalist school scandal in Riaumont, as revealed by the Duck chained.
Several complaints had been filed by former students against this religious community. The victims brought in facts of physical and sexual violence, rape and mistreatment that occurred in the 1990s, at which Philippe Vedovini exercised there as an academic. Whoever called himself “Brother Philippe” had only admitted having inflicted “a little severe” punishment on these children, but had not been prosecuted. The establishment had finally been the subject of an administrative closure in the late 2010s and 11 people had been indicted.
A simple assisted witness but describes as a “guru”
The grandfather of Emile was however described there as a “guru” which inspired the fear of the residents. “It is a community close to far-right and royalist circles, which we know that it uses militarist methods. We choose Riaumont, we choose his methods. Some, whose grandfather of Émile, applied them with much more fervor than others,” PointIXChel Delaporte, independent journalist who wrote the investigation book Riaumont’s martyrs’ children: Survey of a fundamentalist boarding school. She assures in her work that the violence was very established. “Between religious and children, but also between the children themselves. There are rapes of the greatest on the little ones. It is the boarding school of horror,” she said in 2022 20 minutes.
The author assures, however, that there would be no link between the grandfather’s past and the death of Emile: “I think it would be completely risky to establish any link. Obviously there is no link with the disappearance of Emile (…) This brings additional elements to the psychological profile of this alleged man innocent. But one cannot say that since he was violent in an era,” it is largely.