This Thursday, a scenario took place in the Emile affair. Did this process help advance the investigation?

This Thursday, March 28, a scenario took place in the village of Haut-Vernet, where little Emile disappeared on July 8. Throughout the day, 17 participants supervised by investigators, judges in charge of the case and the police reproduced their actions from the day of the disappearance. Access to the village was blocked so as not to hinder the event and was only reopened this Friday morning at 8 a.m. The objective was to compare the testimony from the hearings with the reality on the ground to possibly confirm information or, on the contrary, raise possible inconsistencies. Emile’s family was present on site as were some neighbors and witnesses.

According to Le Parisien, each witness was followed by two investigators and each scene was filmed so that it could be re-studied later. This took place both in the grandparents’ house, where the little boy disappeared after his nap, but also outside where two witnesses claimed to have seen the child passing in the street.

No track was favored before this day. Accident, kidnapping, the mystery has remained unsolved for months. Concerning the trail of Emile’s grandfather, a witness assisted in an investigation into alleged violence and sexual assault in the 1990s within a private school, it is studied “at the same level” as the others.

If little information has been communicated on the possible conclusions of the scenario, it is not certain that it will provide new elements quickly. Jacques Dallest, a former attorney general specializing in long-term cases, explained on RTL that “it can obviously help the investigation, but we must not imagine that at the end of the day, we will know the reasons for the disappearance of little Émile “.

Comments confirmed by Jean-Alphonse Richard, police-justice journalist, in C à vous, the evening of the scenario: “I don’t think that we are going to have police custody directly since the results of this scenario situation, we will sift them, we will review them, we will examine all the images, analyze the behavior of each person, if there is a smile, if there is a hesitation, if the schedules correspond “. The investigators are therefore entering a new phase of analysis with the images captured during this day.