The two maternal grandparents, an uncle and an aunt of Emilea two -year -old boy who disappeared in 2023 without a trace, They have been arrested on Tuesday accused of “voluntary homicide and body concealment”announced the French Prosecutor’s Office.
According to this same source, arrests respond “to a phase of verification and confrontations of elements and information collected during the investigations carried out in recent months.”
The authorities have carried out arrests 20 months later that Emile Soleil disappeared on July 8, 2023.
The child had gone on vacation to the house of his grandparents in Haut-Vernet, a remote village located about 1,200 meters high in the French Alps and already internationally known for being the area where Germanwings air disaster occurred just 10 years ago (where 150 people died).
A very mediated case in France
The case of Émile, very mediated in France, had several months without any advance by the researchers until at the end of March 2024 A hiker fortuitously found a small skull and some teeth that corresponded to the child.
Since the beginning of the case, the French media have turned to the past of the Émile familyof Catholic confession and that attended masses in Latin. The history of maternal grandfather caught attention, now detained and identified as Philippe V.
When he was a member of a religious congregation in northern France, this man was under suspicion for having treated minors with violent methods.
