For Me Georges Catala, criminal lawyer born near Font-Romeu, it is a hypothesis “impossible today to rule out”.
It has now been more than two weeks since‘EmileA 2 and a half year old boydisappeared at Vernet (Alpes de Haute Provence) where he was vacationing at his grandparents’ house.
97 hectares of land around the village have been excavated, all its inhabitants, the attendees at the time of the facts and even more, were questioned, the houses of the hamlet and cars were also explored, in vain.
Now, the investigations have entered a new phase. Excavations have given way to analysis: a long-term task that requires time. Also, the investigation switched Tuesday under the regime of thejudicial information.
Perhaps even worse, in this case, the investigators did not no track whether it is kidnapping, accident with concealment of body or animal attack. “No track is privileged and no hypothesis is excluded“, summed up the situation in these words the public prosecutor of Digne-les-Bains.
“We cannot neglect, and especially not, the possibility of a large predator”
But Me George Catala believes, he, that we should not neglect the trail of the abduction by a “big predator”. “We cannot neglect, and especially not, the possibility of a large predator”, esteem in the columns of The Midi Dispatch The one who is attorney at the Toulouse bar since 1968.
A track “impossible today to dismiss” for this criminal of Catalan origin (he was born near Font-Romeu in 1944). And the man who intervened in some of the biggest criminal cases in the South West (Suzanne Viguier case, disappearance of Marion Wagon in Agen) to explain: “Because unfortunately, from Fourniret to Emile Louis or, more recently, Nordahl Lelandais, these people exist and this hypothesis remains valid. To remove without leaving the slightest trace, from what I read in the newspapers, a little 2-year-old boy in a tiny hamlet where everyone knows each other, unfortunately, requires a certain know-how. So we have to look in that direction as well. he concludes.