Accident or kidnapping? 24 hours after the disappearance of little Emile, 2 and a half years old, at Vernet (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence), no hypothesis is favored by the investigators. The child was playing on Saturday in the garden of his grandparents’ house, in this village of 125 inhabitants, when he escaped their vigilance, around 6 p.m., in an area whose surroundings are steep.
According to initial elements emerging from two testimonies, the child left “the place of residence of his grandparents” and was seen “in a downhill street by two people. This is where we then lose track of him, ”said Digne-les-Bains public prosecutor Rémy Avon on Sunday during a press conference at Vernet.
In its latest bulletin, Météo-France placed this Sunday two new departments in the south-east on heat wave orange vigilance for Monday. In this case, the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence and the Var. They are added to the Rhône, the Ain, the Isère, the Alpes-Maritimes and the Loire.
Orange vigilance has been extended until Monday for these five departments, due to a “non-exceptional heatwave episode for the season, but the persistence of which requires special vigilance, especially for sensitive or exposed people”, according to Météo- France.
The Court of Auditors publishes late Monday morning its report on the use by the State of private consulting firms, a long-awaited document after the controversy triggered in 2022 by a vitriolic report from the Senate on the same subject. The first president of the Court of Auditors Pierre Moscovici promised in early July a report “up to the expectations it can raise”.
The state’s use of consultants was described as a “sprawling phenomenon” by Communist senators Éliane Assassi and Les Républicains Arnaud Bazin, in a report published in March 2022 a few weeks before the first round of the presidential election. Their work had poisoned the campaign of Emmanuel Macron, singled out for his alleged links with big names in consulting such as the American firm McKinsey.