Four days after the discovery of little Émile's bones, a thick mystery remains over the causes of his death. As the investigation takes a new turn, the hamlet of Haut-Vernet, in the Provençal Alps, is once again the scene of in-depth research by the gendarmerie, whose numerous staff are examining with a fine-tooth comb the place where a walker discovered the remains of the two and a half year old boy, during a walk almost two kilometers from his grandparents' home, on March 30. Dispatched to the site, anthropologists, entomologists and forensic scientists from the Criminal Research Institute of the National Gendarmerie (IRCGN) carefully study this steep and wild place, with its complex topography. Through their technologies and their cutting-edge work, these scientists from the Institute based in Pontoise, in Île-de-France, are trying to raise hypotheses, in particular to understand whether the little boy died accidentally, or through the intervention of a third. While…
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