Émile Soleil disappeared on July 8, 2023 in the hamlet of Haut-Vernet, while he was spending the holidays with his grandparents. He had escaped their vigilance and vanished. Long searches had been undertaken to find him. Unfortunately, a few months later, the terrible news came. The little boy’s skull was found by a walker, definitively confirming his death.
As reported by BFMTV, nearly a year after the little boy’s disappearance, and three months after the discovery of his bones, François Balique, mayor of Le Vernet, carried out a highly symbolic act. He made Émile’s death official with a death certificate.
An act that makes the sad reality official
If the main purpose of this official act is to formalize the death of a loved one and to begin the organization of the funeral, for example, it does not, however, give the parents the right to recover the bones of the little boy.
Bones which, after nine months of investigation, had raised many questions. Was the little boy’s body moved? And why were only his skull and teeth discovered? Why were they more than a kilometer from the grandparents’ house?
Even after the body was found, several questions remain unanswered.
At the moment, these questions still do not have precise answers. You should know that the human bone that is most often reported by ordinary people to investigators is the skull. If it is found in nature, it is very difficult, for example, for onlookers to identify a child’s femur as a human bone,” he nevertheless tried to explain. Norbert Telmon, head of the Rangueil forensic medicine service, in The Midi Dispatch.
Regarding the movement of the body, Colonel Marie-Laure Pezant made several assumptions. “ There is also the hypothesis that the bones were brought to the area by a person, an animal that transported them, or by weather conditions that modified the ground and moved them here.”. The death of the little boy is in any case now official.
