The Vernet sector is a “complicated terrain” for research
Blaise Agresti, former boss of the high mountain gendarmerie platoon, considers that the terrain is “complicated”.
Guest of BFMTV, the gendarme explains that the Vernet sector is a “medium mountain terrain”.
“You have to be extremely careful […] able to move everywhere, in all places,” he explains.
Two army vehicles sent as reinforcements
Two army vehicles have just arrived as reinforcements, at the request of the Marseille research section.
They complete the important device, of which the mobile gendarmes are part, to find the little boy. This research will be more “targeted” and “adapted”.
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François Balique, mayor of Vernet, says he still has “hope”
“All the hypotheses are the subject of research”, assures the mayor, François Balique, at the microphone of BFMTV this morning which considers that the criminal track is “almost impossible”.
“We see everything that is happening here, someone we have never seen is immediately spotted. We are really in a rural area. If you have to go up to this hamlet, it is only to see the inhabitants” , he explains. The hamlet in which Émile disappeared has only about fifteen dwellings and the spirit of a village square.
“I still have hope,” he breathes.
Sixty gendarmes deployed to continue the search
About sixty gendarmes are arriving in the Vernet sector to continue the more “adapted” research.
An important device is deployed like that of yesterday with in particular staff from the high mountain gendarmerie platoon.
The device is likely to evolve throughout the day. The dog brigade could also be called.
Why the end of the search does not mean the end of the search
More than sixty hours after Émile’s disappearance, the child remains untraceable. Monday at the end of the day, the prefect of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Marc Chappuis, indicated that for this day of Tuesday, the research system put in place was going to be “more targeted” and “selective”.
“The stopping of the hunts does not mean the end of the search, it is simply a rearticulation of the device”, explains Mark Evans, pilot of the air forces of the national gendarmerie.
“I cannot speak for the search operations commander, but he has certainly closed a number of doors, and no doubt the elements in his possession encourage him to do things differently,” he concludes. -he.
A voice message from Émile’s mother broadcast by loudspeaker during the search
While hundreds of soldiers and volunteers were looking for the little boy who disappeared in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence on Monday, a message from his mother was broadcast by helicopters to reassure the child, in view of where he would be hiding .
Despite the efforts of hundreds of people, little Émile, two years old, “has still not been located”, announced the prefect of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence late afternoon on Monday. The search, which began 48 hours earlier when the child disappeared in the hamlet of Haut-Vernet, will continue on Tuesday but in a more targeted form. The beats will be abandoned in particular.
End of the hunts, 48 hours after the disappearance of little Émile, still not found
“The research will continue this Tuesday but we will adapt the device so that it is more targeted and selective”, declared the prefect of the department Marc Chappuis.
“Concretely, we stop the beatings” to deploy “specialized means in search of traces and clues”, the searches already carried out having not made it possible to locate the boy in the initial perimeter of 5km around the hamlet of Haut- Vernet and its 25 inhabitants, where the toddler disappeared, some 2km above the village of Vernet itself, explained the prefect.
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Welcome to this direct dedicated to the follow-up of the research to find the little Émile, two and a half years old, not found since his disappearance this Saturday in the hamlet of Haut-Vernet in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence.