The discovery of the blond boy's skull and his clothes on Easter Saturday allowed an important step forward in the investigation into the disappearance of little Émile. Since then, gendarmes and anthropologists have been working hard to find out more about the circumstances of his death.
A task made all the more difficult by the fact that the potential “
crime scene
” was most likely altered by the intervention of the hiker who brought the skull back to the police. “
When a body or skeleton is discovered, the first principle of the IRCGN is to “freeze the scene”. Thus, the teams have total control of all its elements, and of what is happening inside
,” the director of the Criminal Research Institute of the National Gendarmerie (IRCGN), General François,
confided this week to Le
Figaro.
Heulard.
After picking up the skull, the hiker placed it in a plastic bag, then took it back to her home, before notifying the police. This walker probably didn't think...
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