Still no trace of Emile (2): Hope’s phone records provide answers

Nine days after two-year-old Emil disappeared without trace, the family is still without answers.

Emile, a two-and-a-half-year-old French boy, disappeared without trace from his grandparents’ garden outside the village of Le Vernet, in southeastern France, on July 8.

Last week, the police, gendarmerie gendarmerie Military Organized Police.Hundreds of volunteers searched for him with helicopters, dogs, metal detectors and thermal imaging cameras.

According to the director of the investigation Remy Avon at the Public Prosecutor’s Office in Digne-les-Bains LEXPRESS He stated that over the weekend there was no information that corroborated any of the police’s hypotheses.

– No theory is excluded

Le Figaro He writes that several family members were present at the ancestral home when Emil disappeared. But neither of his parents were there.

Emily was last seen walking alone by two neighbors at around 5.15pm.

Avon previously told the newspaper that the first emergency call came in at around 18.00.

Theories abound about what happened to little Emile in the village. Everything from animal attacks to hit-and-run.

But the chief of investigation is quite clear:

“No theory stands out, no theory is left out,” says Avon.

new stage

On Monday, the investigation moved to a new phase.

The 20 investigators on the case will in the future use the resources to conduct interviews, phone records and other information in the investigation.

according to bfmtv The police must analyze more than 1,500 phone calls.

Investigators hope the phone records, in particular, will give them a breakthrough in the investigation. Among other things, the material will be able to reveal who was in the area during the time of Emil’s disappearance.

On Monday, Le Vernet’s mayor, François Palec, decided that the hamlet will remain closed to the public until the end of this month. In general, he wants to avoid curious onlookers and tourists.

– broken

The grandparents’ friend, Jean-Marcel, speaks bfmtv That the disappearance is incomprehensible.

– Families were destroyed, he says.

– We only think of the tragedy that the family is going through. All we can do is hope that we will regain our composure. The only important thing is the support we can give them, it continues the channel.

Emile lives with his parents in La Bouilladisse, about 170 kilometers from his grandparents. The family lived there for almost a year, after the parents completed their studies in Marseille.

Acquaintances described the family as quiet and very religious.