More than 45 hectares were searched, also revealing the clothes of the two and a half year old boy as well as a bone fragment belonging to him. None of these discoveries has yet allowed investigators to elucidate the circumstances of the boy's death.
“These bones alone (found) do not allow us to say what is the cause of Émile’s death,” Jean-Luc Blachon conceded during a press briefing on Tuesday. The place where the child's clothes and bones - part of the skull and teeth - were discovered is approximately 1.7 km from the hamlet, a 25-minute walk for an adult. But no one can confirm that Émile's skull and his clothes had been there since July 8. They could have been “brought back by a human person, an animal or the weather conditions”, as the gendarmerie spokesperson, Marie-Laure Pezant, explained on Monday. The search dogs, specialized in the search for human remains, had already returned to their unit at the National Dog Center in Gramat (Lot)