The body of Emile, the 2-year-old boy who disappeared in July 2023, has been found

"genetic identification analyses" bones found on Saturday led to the conclusion that the body found is that of little Emile, who disappeared in July 2023 in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence.

The end of a mystery. The body of little Emile, aged just 2 years old and worn missing for 9 months, wasé found. Saturday March 30, 2024, the national gendarmerie was arrested. informed of the discovery of bones at the site proximity from the hamlet Vernet, explainedé the Aix-en-Provence prosecutor in a press release. The magistrate specifies that the investigators immediately transported these bones "à the IRCGN [Criminal Research Institute of the National Gendarmerie] in order to carry out genetic identification analyzes which made it possible to conclude on March 31 that these were the bones of the child Emile Soleil' ;quot;, relays Le Monde. 

Investigation for kidnapping

On vacation at the secondary residence of his maternal grandparents, the boy had been taken into custody. He was last seen by two neighbors on July 8, late in the afternoon, while he was looking at the house. wandered alone in the streets of the small hamlet of Vernet populated by of only 25 inhabitants.

The investigation, first opened for "worrying disappearance", had been é entrusted to the investigating judges of Aix-en-Provence then reclassified as criminal grounds for "kidnapping and sequestration&quot ;, recalls the French daily newspaper. 

While the numerous researches had not until'à Although it was not possible to find Emile's body, Thursday March 28, investigators had organized a search. a "scenario" having brought together 17 people — family members, neighbors and witnesses — to retrace chronologically the evening of July 8.