to call Émile two-year-old boy disappeared for two days in a mountainous area Authorities announced that the French southeast (Vernet) did not yield results this Monday and will resume this Tuesday.
“We have not been able to locate the juvenile at the moment,” said the district governor. alps High Provence, Marc Chappuis at a press conference on the course of operations.
Chappuis added that there were concussions they will continue in a “more focused and selective” manner.
Authorities deployed nearly two hundred local volunteers, along with a hundred police officers and firefighters from the local community, to find little Emile, who disappeared in the garden of his grandparents’ house on Saturday.
Those responsible for the search exclude any hypothesisgood boy would go away on its own and get losteven a possible kidnapping, but for now there is no indication that they are considering a criminal act.
“We do not have any element of criminality in the disappearance,” said Digne-les-Bains prosecutor Rémy Avon.
The last time the little boy was seen by two people walking alone on the street was two people, and their traces have since disappeared.
Investigations include searching nearby forests and fields, which have a small population. Haut Vernet (north of Nice), with only 25 inhabitants and in all the houses and buildings of the earth.
On vacation at grandparents house
Little boy who just arrived on holiday with his maternal grandparents in Haut-Vernet, He disappeared on Saturday afternoon. The Digne prosecutor insisted that he was very lonely when he was last seen by two neighbors on a street in the village at 5:15pm on Saturday.
Since that time, hundreds of volunteers, as did 19-year-old Roxanne and two of her relatives joined the search. The trio, who describe themselves as “friends of the family”, arrived early Monday morning from Bouilladisse, the municipality of Bouches-du-Rhône, where Emile’s parents came from.
“We took part in a great hunt of about fifty this morning,” the young woman told France Presse.
The search area is mountainous and rugged, dotted with small streams, and if the child is lost, I would have already spent three nights and two days alonewithout food and drink, in difficult hot conditions, the department is under surveillance due to the heat wave.
The investigation to find out the reasons for the disappearance on Sunday was entrusted to the investigative division of the Marseille gendarmerie, supported by the investigation brigade of the Digne-les-Bains gendarmerie.
The village of Vernet is located in the Trois Evêchés massif, at an altitude of 1,200 meters above sea level. Where a Germanwings Airbus A320 crashed in 2015.
The accident, deliberately caused by the plane’s co-pilot, resulted in the deaths of five crew members and 144 passengers from 19 countries, mostly German and Spanish.
An obelisk was erected at Vernet, paying homage to the victims.