French investigators believe that the remains of Little Emile Soleil were probably kept in a protected, almost sterile environment as a freezer before they were moved and found.
Analyzes of bones found near a river in the sleepy French Hamlet of Haut Vernet at the beginning of last year suggest that they had moved before they were discovered, which experts believe they could suggest a deliberate staging.
Based on the decomposition of the remains, they believe that they were carefully kept before they were exposed to the open air where they were found.
The analyzes also suggested that the skull of the two -year -old, recovered at the end of March, just before it was sustained by a walker on less than a mile from his grandparents' house, where he disappeared on July 8, 2023.
The police said they had already searched the area during intensive searches.
According to the investigation, the clothing that was found in a state of decomposition in April was found in the vicinity of the remains – which they believe he suggests that he was not only lost and did not died where his bones and clothing were found.
“The expert reports suggest the chance of third-party involvement in the disappearance and death of Émile Soleil,” the public prosecutor Jean-Luc Blachon told a press conference at the end of last week.
Émile Soleil was missing in 2023 in a sleepy Alpine Village in France
French Gendarmes participate in a search operation for missing Emile Soleil in July 2023
A gendarme is outside the house of the grandparents of Émile Soleil on March 25
The skull was found on one side with signs of 'violent face trauma', Mr Bachon said at the press conference on Thursday.
They still have to determine whether the blow was carried out by an object or a fist, according to Le Parisien, but the suggestion of third -party involvement has become an important line of research.
Researchers have already carried out 287 witness interviews, combed 285 hectares of land and brought more than 60 expert missions together to analyze the findings, was unveiled last week.
Colonel Christophe Berthelin ensured that around 15 researchers work every day every day since the disappearance of July 2023 to understand what happened to the child.
But they have not yet convincingly determined what happened to the little Emile Soleil, or why he was murdered.
The grandparents of Émile, who took care of him when he disappeared from their holiday home in the summer of 2023, were released last week for detention that were held on suspicion of voluntary murder and hiding a corpse this week.
Mr Bachon that the research line in which the family was involved was simply 'one of the other', while he noticed that the family path has not yet been closed '.
He said that the investigation had reached a stage “where it became necessary to confront and alleviate the people who are most affected by the tragedy.
Grandfather Philippe Vedovini at the funeral of Little Émile in Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume on February 8, 2025
Anne Vedovini, 59, was arrested with her husband on Tuesday. Émile Soleil had stayed with his grandparents at the time of his disappearance
Researchers removed a horse trailer from the building of the grandparents of Emile Soleil on March 25
The grandparents and two of their 10 children were arrested “in the light of the results of the expert reports,” he said.
All confronted with accusations of 'intentional murder' and 'hide a corpse', said a statement released by Aix-en-Provence officers of justice.
In France, people can be arrested for interrogation while the police are investigating. It does not mean that legal proceedings will necessarily be established against them.
The arrests, last Tuesday, were the result of finding 'in recent months', he said reporters at the time.
He said that the forensic police were still investigating 'different places in the area' and carried out broad forensic work throughout the country.
Research sources also confirmed that the Vedovinis, who took care of Émile when he was missing, were arrested after months of police wire taps.
Conversations between them and other family members were all listened to secretly, while questions were performed around their lives.
Mr Bachon also revealed a set back in the study, because a blood coate planter near the Saint Martin Chapel contained the Sunday 'no evidence that would probably promote the research'.
Researchers wanted to determine whether the blood was human and whether it would shed light on the story of Emile.
Émile (photo) was last seen in a yellow T-shirt and white shorts, researchers said at the time
Aix-en-Provence Public Prosecutor Jean-Luc Blachon focuses on a press conference, March 27
Marie and Colomban Soleil, parents of Emile, who were missing in 2023 and whose remains were found in March 2024, arrive at the funeral ceremony in Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume, southern France, on 8 February 2025
The mystery became deeper when it appeared last week that the Roman Catholic priest of the family who baptized Émile before he was missing “had taken his own life,” according to reports.
Father Claude Gilliot, 85, would have died of a 'massive overdose' in his house in Aix-en-Provence, French media reports. Claims have been submitted that he fell with the Vedovinis before his death.
Father Gilliot had often expressed his emotional fear during the Saga.
The priest was once very close to the grandparents of Émile, along with two of their 10 adult children.
The Vedovini family is all pious Roman Catholics and at a certain moment trusted Father Gilliot for their spiritual guidance, including celebrating mass and hearing confessions.
But they fell out after Father Gilliot had given a photo of Émile to the media, in an attempt to find the little boy.
