Four relatives of the little Emile, the two and a half year old boy who disappeared the summer of 2023 in the Alps of Alta Provence and was found later dead, have been arrested on Tuesday. Among those arrested are His grandparentsPhilippe Vedovini and his wife, inform French media. Also “two adult children” of these, that is, The uncles of the minorof which gender and identity are unknown at the moment.
The arrested are charged with crimes of “Voluntary homicide” and “concealment of a corpse”as indicated by the Aix-in-Provence Prosecutor’s Office in a statement. The arrests, which are registered “in a phase of verification and comparison of information collected in recent months,” have been confirmed by the grandparents’ lawyer, Isabelle Colombani. Speaking to AFP has avoided ruling in this regard: “I just found out,” he said.
Research, therefore, focuses now In the circle of the little one. In fact, reports ‘Le Figaro’, several relatives will appear in voluntary hearings. Likewise, “forensic operations” are being carried out in several locations in France, said prosecutor Jean-Luc Blanchon according to local media.
Little and a half years, two and a half years, disappeared on July 8, 2023. Then He was in his grandparents’ house Maternus in the Haut-Vernet village, with just 15 homes and 25 inhabitants.
From that moment on, those sweeps began to be searching for results Until nine months later. Thus, in March 2024, a woman found a skull. He was less than 2 kilometers from the village, about 25 minutes walk. “Everything was white and clean, only his teeth were missing from above,” he said then.
After the finding of the authorities being notified, the bones were transferred by helicopter to the Institute of Criminal Investigations of the National Gendarmerie (IRCGN, for its acronym in French) in Pontoise, Val d’Oise. There, an analysis confirmed that they belonged to little Émile, as the gendarmerie reported to ‘BFM-TV’.
This February 8 the Child’s Family He celebrated a funeral In his memory in the Basilica of Saint-Maximin-La-Sainte-Baume. There their relatives came. Also his grandparents. “We can no longer live without answers, we still do not know what happened to Émile,” they said in statements collected by ‘BFM’, in which they added: “The time of silence must give way to that of truth.”
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