A fundraiser was launched on the Facebook group “Pray for Émile’ this Sunday to “help the family pay for the funeral and to have masses said,” explains the person behind the initiative. The organizer anticipates any accusation of embezzlement: “If it was a scam (as some may believe), this prize pool would not have been shared on this page,’ she wrote.
This Monday morning, 26 participations were already registered. The amount collected is not indicated. The bones of the two and a half year old boy were found on Saturday by a hiker in the village of Haute-Provence.