“It’s a very small bone. We do not know, at this stage, to which part of the child’s body it may belong.“. The public prosecutor of Aix-en-Provence confirmed this Monday evening the information from the newspaper Le Parisien: new bones belonging to the skeleton of Émile were discovered in the search area located near the hamlet of Haut- Vernet.
A very small bone discovered in the search area
A discovery made “during the last weekWednesday or Thursday” according to the prosecutor. DNA analyzes carried out on the sample confirmed this Monday that it is indeed the body of little Émile, disappeared on July 8, 2023 in this village of 25 inhabitants located in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence.
The hamlet still closed to the public
This small piece of bone was found in the area in which the little boy’s skull and clothes had already been found about ten days ago. Around a hundred gendarmes remain mobilized on site to try to reconstruct the last moments of little Émile’s life. The hamlet is closed to the public until April 15.