Investigators want to clarify the many gray areas that remain. Two dog teams specializing in the search for human remains have been deployed since Monday April 1 in the morning in Vernet (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence), where the bones belonging to little Emile were discovered. Objective: find the last remains of the child and determine the circumstances of his death. Follow our live stream.
An important research device. Around a hundred gendarmes have been deployed in the area since Monday morning. Among them are also “experts from the gendarmerie criminal research institute”of which of the “anthropologists” specialized in “soil analysis”said Marie-Laure Pezant, spokesperson for the national gendarmerie.
The police looking for clues. Investigators hope “identify whether or not these bones were on site or whether they could have been brought back by different means: a human person, an animal which would have transported them or the weather conditions which would have modified the ground and which would have moved them here “the spokesperson for the national gendarmerie said on franceinfo.
“We remain focused on different hypotheses.” The gendarmerie recognizes that there is “a tiny chance” that the gendarmes passed by the body when they carried out the searches: “We had committed a lot of resources, but, given the configuration of the place with the abundant vegetation in July, it could have complicated the search and we could, perhaps, have missed it. It’s a hypothesis which exists. Then, there is also the possibility that these bones were later brought back to the area.”