Remains of missing 2-year-old Emile Soleil found in French Alps

Split image of Emile, a two-year-old boy who went missing on July 8, 2023 and a photo of French police searching for him in the French southern Alps village of Le Vernet. Nine months after going missing, the remains of the toddler were found near the hamlet he disappeared from., a 2-year-old boy who went missing nearly nine months ago from his grandparents’ home in a remote hamlet in the French Alps, have been found.shocked France and captured international attention.

French investigators carried out genetic testing on the remains and confirmed that the bones belonged to Soleil. Authorities are unsure of the toddler’s cause of death and forensic investigators will continue to analyze the remains.“This heartbreaking news was feared,” said the toddler’s parents in a statement through their lawyer. “The time has come for mourning, contemplation and prayer.

Sniffer dogs specializing in the search for human remains were deployed to find any more traces or clues of what happened to the 2-year-old, said Colonel Pierre-Yves Bardy of the local gendarmerie. “Is that where he disappeared? Is that where he took his last breath, nobody knows,” said Mayor François Balique. “In any case I have no idea, but the judicial inquiry will no doubt be able to find that out.”Police have not ruled out any cause of the toddler’s death and are looking into whether Soleil was abducted or slipped and fell in an accident.

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