Missing French toddler: Police are destroying one of Émile's neighbours' concrete slab in search for the boy

But where is little Émile? The two-and-a-half-year-old boy has been missing for over two months. On July 8, the child vanished while playing in his grandparents' garden in the hamlet of Haut-Vernet, in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence region of France. Since then, the police have explored every hypothesis, even the most surreal... In vain. But recently, disturbing revelations have been made about the boy's grandfather.

Excavations under the slab of a house

But this Tuesday, September 12, 2023, BFM DICI made an announcement that could be decisive in the investigation. The police are currently carrying out searches a few hundred meters from the grandparents' house, in the hamlet of Haut-Vernet. According to the news channel, a jackhammer was used by the police to destroy 'an enormous concrete slab' located under thehome of a local resident.

According to BFM DICI, investigators have been carrying out searches since Monday September 11, in a house located just a few hundred meters from the garden where Émile disappeared. The house was built in a meadow, close to a sheepfold, out of sight and hidden behind 'two hundred-year-old trees'.

The building, owned by a couple, has reportedly been under construction for several months. A company from the south of France is said to be working on the site. The owners, whose parents have lived in the village of Haut-Vernet for many years, are said to be 'very nice people', according to a resident who spoke to BFM DICI.

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The house belongs to a local couple

The concrete slab, poured this summer by the construction company hired by the house's owners, is now being destroyed. A source told BFM DICI :

The whole slab is being destroyed. It's a large surface. It could go on all day.

A magistrate also talked to the news media :

We don't know for sure. For the moment, we're just casting doubt.

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This article has been translated from Oh!MyMag FR.

Source used :

BFM DICI