Missing French toddler: Search for Émile is turning life into a nightmare for residents of his village

Little Émile, aged 2, has been missing since July 8, 2023. The search has resumed, but detectives are struggling to find any new evidence. This has prompted villagers to come up with their own theories.

Plunged into paranoia, they won't be able to return to normal life until the case is closed. Indeed, the length of the search is beginning to get on their nerves.

Residents of Le Vernet are annoyed by searches

To find the little boy, a number of search measures were put in place. This was enough to annoy the locals, as one of them confessed to Le Parisien.

The drones at night are hellish.

A few days ago, dogs trained to search for human remains arrived in the village.

At 5 o'clock, they were already there. They searched for I don't know how long at first, then nothing, and now they're searching again.

The woman confesses she no longer understands anything about the investigation. An atmosphere that weighs heavily on the village life, but which is inevitable until we know what happened to Emile. The case public prosecutor justified the long search and the change in methods and theories over the investigation.

The investigating judges are working on all the hypotheses. Some of them justify further investigations already underway, but with other tools and research methods. The current deployment of dogs and drones meets this need.

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Paranoia on the rise in Haut-Vernet

There are those who get annoyed... and those who don't live like they used to, plunged into paranoia. Like this villager, who has taken on a strange new habit. As a 69-year-old skier, the man is used to roaming the mountains. Only, since Emile's disappearance, he turns off his phone every time he approaches the Haut-Vernet.

This is a way for him to 'avoid being singled out,' according to Le Parisien. The man said paranoia has taken over the village, and everyone want to avoid looking suspicious.

You never know, anything might look suspicious.

If Haut-Vernet is having trouble keeping up with the investigation, there's no doubt they're hoping for an outcome as soon as possible.

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This article has been translated from Oh!MyMag FR.

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Le Parisien