a body of water was searched by the gendarmes near Haut-Vernet

Investigations continued on Tuesday, more than three months after the disappearance of the two and a half year old boy on vacation with his parents.

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The gendarmes carry out searches in a house in Haut-Vernet (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence), September 12, 2023. (CAMOIN ERIC / MAXPPP)

New unsuccessful searches? A team of gendarmerie divers searched, Tuesday, September 19, a body of water located not far from Haut-Vernet (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence), France Télévisions learned from the gendarmes. These checks ended around midday, without any new information being communicated at this stage.

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The search took place in a fire protection basin in Vernet, south of Haut-Vernet, franceinfo learned from the gendarmerie. “No new element” did not trigger this operation, which took place “as part of the continuity of the investigation”a week after the failure of excavations at the level of a slab in the hamlet of Haut-Vernet, according to this same source.

Little Emile disappeared more than two months ago in this town in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, while he was on vacation with his grandparents. Following his disappearance, searches brought together hundreds of anonymous people who came to help, without succeeding in finding the child. The thirty houses in the hamlet attached to the commune of Vernet were also searchedresidents questioned and their vehicles visited, without success.


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