“There are two main directions”: why research could soon resume 5 months after Emile’s disappearance

Since July 8, significant resources have been put in place to find the child. Searches by hundreds of volunteers, dog brigades, searches, telephone analyses, hearings…. On August 21, the investigation took a new turn by opening for “kidnapping and sequestration.”

“Something happened and we still don’t know what”

If several months have passed, Francois Baliquen, the mayor of the town, declares that the residents have returned to normal life but that everyone is waiting for the results of the investigation: “We don’t talk about it every day, but it remains in a corner of the head, it’s logical. We think first of the family.”

For the councilor: “Something happened and we still don’t know what. We are perplexed.”

Recently new searches have sparked a new craze and several gossips: “But today this is no longer the case, everyone is aware that if a resident was involved, we would already know more. The gendarmes controlled absolutely everything,” explains François Balique to Dauphiné Libéré.

Either an accident or the intervention of a third party

Months later, All avenues remain possible for investigators. Jacques Dallest, former attorney general of Grenoble, former investigating judge and initiator of the cold case division, explains: “We can still find nothing despite modern means.”

He continues: “There are two main directions. Either the child, despite the search, fell and we never found the body so it is an accident. Or it is the intervention of a third party. This is what investigators necessarily work on.”

The investigation is still continuing today. When the snow has disappeared in the hamlet of Haut-Vernet, new ones could be scheduled, reports FranceInfos. At the same time, psychocriminologists will be mobilized to help investigators prioritize their lines of investigation and give them interrogation strategies.