A dramatic turn of events in the story of little Emile , a two-and-a-half-year-old boy who disappeared in 2023 in a village in the French Alps and whose remains were found nine months later .
A story that has so far remained unsolved and which has shocked the whole of France .
Four people were arrested by investigators this morning at dawn , two years after the events: the child's grandparents and two of their children , Emile's uncles, all four suspected of having killed the child and hidden his body .
Little Emile mysteriously disappeared on July 8, 2023, just after arriving for the summer holidays with his maternal grandparents, in their second home in the Haut-Vernet refuge, in the French Alps.
Despite several days of searching, aided by local residents, no trace of the child was found in the very rugged and isolated area , at an altitude of 1,200 metres.
For nine months the investigation did not lead to any concrete results, then at the end of March 2024 the discovery by a woman who was walking in the mountains of the skull and teeth of the child, just under two kilometers from the refuge, a 25 minute walk for an adult.
(Online Union)
