The grandparents and uncles of little Emil, the two-and-a-half-year-old French boy who disappeared in 2023 in the French Alps and whose remains were found 9 months later, have been released by investigating authorities after being questioned while in custody.
The announcement of the arrest had unleashed a storm of hypotheses about the possible responsibility in the death of the grandparents, to whom the child had just been entrusted by the parents for the summer holidays.
At a press conference at noon, Aix-en-Provence public prosecutor Jean-Luc Blachon said the toddler's remains were moved before they were discovered. He said traces of violent trauma were found on Emil's face.
The two-day detention of Emile's grandparents and uncles "allowed us to answer the questions we had been asking ourselves," Aix-en-Provence prosecutor Jean-Luc Blachon said after the release of the child's four relatives. The four were released because "the evidence was not sufficient to open an investigation against them," the prosecutor said, but "the family's trail has not been definitively closed."
The prosecutor in charge of the investigation spoke today about the possible "intervention of a third person" in the child's disappearance. According to the findings, the clothes in which Emile's remains were found were not originally on the body.
"The bones did not decompose in those clothes," the prosecutor said. This suggests that a third party intervened after the child's disappearance and death.
Blachon specified that the "vase" seized in front of a church "does not contain any element that allows us to advance the investigations."
After the vase was found on March 13 in the village of Haut-Vernet where Emile had disappeared, some rumors had spread, as traces of blood had been found in the flower bed and someone had spread rumors that the child's body had been hidden in the vase. (A2 Televizion)
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