The investigators responsible for investigating the disappearance of little Émile are organizing new searches in Haut Vernet. A concrete slab already spotted during previous searches caught their attention.
The searches resume in the case of the disappearance of little Émile. After the disappearance of the two-year-old child in Haut Vernet last July, investigators followed a new lead and resumed research in the hamlet of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence since September 11. It is a building located a few meters from the family home of Émile’s grandparents, built in a meadow and hidden by century-old trees, which attracted the attention of the gendarmes according to information from BFM D’ICI.
The investigators are interested in what could be under the construction and destroy a concrete slab poured during work carried out during the summer, a few days before Émile’s disappearance. The gendarmes cordoned off the perimeter while some, armed with jackhammers, cleared the area. Part of the concrete slab had already been destroyed during the first excavations to find the little boy after sonar detected an “anomaly”, but nothing had caught the attention of investigators.
If they look for the slightest lead, the police do not know if they will discover anything, or what it could be. But these searches, if they prove conclusive, could advance the investigation. “We have no certainty. For the moment, we are witnessing a removal of doubts,” however, tempered a magistrate at the local BFM branch. “The investigation and investigations are continuing” simply indicated the Aix-en-Provence public prosecutor’s office.
Before destroying and searching the underside of the concrete slab, investigators were interested in the owners of the building: a couple living in Bouches-du-Rhône who allegedly commissioned a construction company to carry out work in recent months, including the pouring of the slab. Before that a former retired farmer would have owned the place. The latter was interviewed by the gendarmes according to his own statements to the news channel: “It lasted two hours. Personal questions like the name of my parents, my habits or even what I think of so and so such”. Nothing that suggests that the man is more or less suspect than another.
