After the tragedy, solidarity. 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.
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The prize pool, hosted on the Leetchi platform, was launched “in agreement with the family”, according to the latter.
Around twenty participants
The organizer anticipates any accusation of embezzlement: “Emile's parents being in this group, I ask you to believe that 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.
VIDEO. Disappearance of little Émile: bones belonging to him found in Haut-Vernet
The bones of the two and a half year old boy were found on Saturday by a hiker in the village of Haute-Provence, in an area already searched by investigators, nine months after his disappearance. It was in the only street of this hamlet of 25 inhabitants, attached to the village of Vernet, between Digne-les-Bains and Gap, that the boy was seen for the last time on July 8, 2023.