A year after the discovery of Emile’s bones, the investigators continue research at the Haut-Vernet, especially within and around the Church.
Could the circumstances of Emile’s death reveal themselves inside the Haut-Vernet church? It is on this track that the investigators have been rummaging since Thursday, March 13, 2025, almost a year after the discovery of the child’s bones. If the hypothesis of a disappearance without the intervention of a third party is not abandoned, it does not seem to be privileged either. And this religious building, located less than a hundred meters from the family home, could well give new elements to the authorities.
And already, investigators from the Marseille research section did not leave empty-handed: they embarked an “imposing” planter located near the Haut-Vernet chapel. The reason for this seizure remains unknown. “The planter was emptied of her land and taken immediately. They did not even enter the chapel, which has no lighting,” simply told a source close to the investigation at Figaro Friday.
But according to information from Parisianinvestigations have taken place in the church, very frequented by the boy’s family. According to the newspaper, the grandparents of Emile, fervent Catholics, went there every day with their children, to pray and sing Gregorian songs. The operation within the place of worship was organized after the collection of information deemed interesting.
New checks and auditions
To date, the authorities are more and more some that the boy has not been able to disappear alone in the Haut-Vernet almost two years ago when he stayed with his grandparents. However, no police custody has yet taken place. A particular element goes in this direction: a DNA foreign to that of the Emile family was discovered during the analysis of the bones and clothes of the child. “Whether there is an author, that is almost no doubt. Did he voluntarily affect the child or involuntarily? It is impossible to say for the moment. But that there can be human intervention, that is now very likely,” said a source close to the file to BFM Dici. The accidental track is not yet completely excluded, such as that of manslaughter and that of opportunity crime.
In addition, the authorities continue to peel and analyze hundreds of data to understand what happened. They also consult the letters, often anonymous, which they have received on the case since the disappearance of Emile, in search of the slightest element that could help them. The field of research would also have expanded to the reception of one of these letters. At the beginning of March, gendarmes would have visited Tours and around Paris, while the investigations have always been located in the south of France. If this trip has not been officially confirmed, prosecutor Jean-Luc Blachon spoke of “simple checks”.
Free hearings are also still in progress. Even the gendarmes, first arrived at the scene of the disappearance, are invited to testify to what they noted that day in the hamlet.
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10:15 – The Haut -Vernet church in the heart of investigations
The investigators organized an operation of “verification” around the Haut-Vernet church, where Emile’s family passed the Grandes-Vacances, as well as inside. According to The Parisianthe investigations were organized after the collection of information deemed interesting. This church was very frequently visited by the boy’s family: grandparents, Catholics fervents, went there every day with their children to pray and sing Gregorian songs, indicates the newspaper. It is also located less than a hundred meters from the family home, and fifty meters from the wash house where Emile was seen for the last time.