The causes of the child’s death have not yet been determined.
The death certificate of little Emile, who disappeared in July 2023 in Vernet (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence), was signed this Friday, June 28 by the mayor of the town, we learned BFM YOU SAY et ProvenceThe signing comes three months after the boy’s bones were found on a village path.
As the local news channel points out, this signature, which allows certain administrative procedures to be initiated, does not allow the child’s parents to recover his or her bones and clothes. “The analyses are not finished”had justified on June 21 Jean-Luc Blachon, the public prosecutor of Aix-en-Provence in charge of the case.
His skull found by a walker
The little boy disappeared in Haut-Vernet late in the afternoon on July 8. Significant resources were quickly deployed to try to find him: citizen searches, sweeping operations, searches of all the buildings making up the hamlet, without success.
It was only on March 30 that a skull that turned out to be that of the little boy was found by a walker on a path in Haut-Vernet. However, this discovery did not allow the causes of the child’s death to be determined.
