She speaks for the first time since the announcement of her son's death. “We are always very touched by your compassion,” assured the mother of little Émile (2 and a half years old) – whose bones were found in Haut-Vernet (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence) on March 30 – in a message posted on the Facebook group “Pray for Émile”. “We try to read all your messages, whether comments, PMs
(for private messages)
, letters…”, she assured.
The message posted by Émile's mother on the "Pray for Émile" group. Facebook screenshot
His mother, Marie, also thanked everyone who participated in the kitty set up to finance the burial of little Émile. “We received the first part of it,” she wrote. The young boy's mother had communicated regularly via this group since her son's disappearance on July 8. A call to pray was launched there last September, this family being very religious.
Bones discovered more than 8 months later
Emile's bones were discovered on March 30 by a walker, less than 2 km from the place of his disappearance in Haut-Vernet. “I say to myself:
quickly, quickly, I have to bring the thing back and the police will find the culprit
(…)
the investigation will finally move forward
,” the latter testified to BFMTV, remembering the moment of the discovery. The bones of the little boy had been analyzed by the Criminal Research Institute of the National Gendarmerie (IRCGN), but these had not made it possible to determine the cause of his death according to the public prosecutor of Aix-en- Provence, Jean-Luc Blachon.
Clothes that the boy was wearing on the day of his disappearance were also found not far from where his bones were located. Another bone in his apartment was also discovered shortly after in the same area, according to our information. The search for the rest of his body ended on April 10, after more than 45 hectares had been searched. Before that and for almost nine months, the investigation had produced nothing concrete.
Émile had disappeared on July 8, when he had just arrived for the summer holidays with his maternal grandparents, in their second home in the hamlet of Haut-Vernet, attached to the village of Vernet, 1,200 m above sea level. 'altitude. Two neighbors claim to have seen him on the main street of the hamlet, but with conflicting accounts. The little boy was seen around 5:15 p.m., in the only street of this tiny town, while he was wearing a yellow top, white shorts and hiking shoes.