Grandparents A French little child who has disappeared Almost two years ago, France was arrested on suspicion of his murder, the authorities said on Tuesday.
Émile soleilTwo -year -old boy, disappeared from his grandparents’ house in a remote hamlet of French Alps in July 2023. Nine months later, The remains were found by mountaineers near the village of Le Haut-Vennet.
Now the boy’s grandparents and two of their adult children have been detained, CNN reports.
Volunteers participate in Emile Soleil search operation, which has been reported to have disappeared in the French village of the southern Alps Le Haut-Vennet. Emile was last seen playing in the garden at the house of his grandparents, July 8, 2023.
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The boy’s grandfather, Philippe Vedovina and his wife, whom the prosecutors did not appoint, were arrested this week on suspicion of “voluntary murder” and “concealment of corpses”, according to a statement of public prosecutors Aix-En-Provence.
When Soleil He disappeared firstThere was no indication that the child was abducted, police said at the time. But when the bones of the toddlers were found so close to the hamlet in the area that the authorities searched, questions were asked how they got there.
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Soleil disappeared the day after his parents rejected him to Le Haut-Vennet to stay with his grandparents on vacation.
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Two witnesses told the authorities to see the boy walking downhill road Not far from the family home shortly after being reported that he disappeared.
The solid terrain of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence prefecture, where the small hamlet of Le Haut-Vernet is popular with mountaineers because of its rivers, plains and steep trails, but makes a treacherous landscape for the child. There are only about 130 inhabitants in the city and is described as a place where “everyone knows everything.”
All 30 buildings that make Hamlet were searched by investigators.
File-French gendarmes participate in search surgery in 2023 for two and a half years Emile Soleil.
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The case caught the nation, especially around Vedovini, which he reported that CNN was associated with BFMTV questioned the police During the alleged sex attack and violence in the private school in the 1990s, where he trained at the time to be a monk. The brightness denied any injustice related to the case.
Speculation that development in this case is directly repeated at the beginning of this month when investigators returned to the village.
French media reported on Tuesday that House of grandparents searched and that the police seized one of their vehicles.
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