Grandparents arrested for suspected murder of French toddler • FRANCE 24 English

A lengthy investigation into the mysterious death in 2023 of a French toddler took a surprise turn on Tuesday when police arrested the boy’s grandparents on suspicion of murder. The death of Emile Soleil, a boy of two-and-a-half who went missing in a French Alpine village in July 2023, had remained unexplained even after some of his remains were discovered nine months later.
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17 comments
  1. Why would they do this, in ireland a 6 year old boy went missing and 2 years later the cops having interviewed the mother who lives in England now and another family who has since killed himself are not able to find his body or who might have killed him, its scandalous that children can disappear and never be seen again. In the case of this poor 2 year old they should bring back the death penalty, would b a good deterant in stopping a lot of crime

  2. Why did it take Them so Long, Maybe they were listening to the Grand parents phone to find evidence.. rest in peace dear child ❤️‍🩹

  3. This is ridiculous torturing those people, obvious attack just because they’re Christian by media – the child was headed toward a field being cut with combine , it stated in early news reports two neighbours told police they’d seen him walking past. Do you think neighbours would lie about that? Also who was the hiker who brought the bag with her hiking and came back with skull in it? Is she related to any family of farmers? Marks could easily by being hit by tines of the combine, all consistent. Now I’d be looking who cut the fields. It would obviously be a bad accident maybe seen hit and stopped then didn’t know what to do so he hid the body – it should have been checked to see if any cleaning agents were use on machines used.

  4. This needs looked at again because of it was a combine harvester ( which was happening) the hiker acted strange. She keeps calling the skull “ the thing” and said when she got back she “ didn’t want to bring him into the house” when it was only the skull? And why did she have two bags? To cover her feet? And why not take it to the police station first?

    In her first interview, the woman who found Emile’s bones has said she ‘did not expect’ police to search her home after reporting the grim discovery.

    She ended up being quizzed for nine hours following the fateful walk and had all her electronic devices seized as part of the investigation. Identified only as Manon and aged in her 60s, the woman told the BFM TV news channel how she set off on a mountain path close to Haut-Vernet on March 30.

    Manon said she could not recall how long she has been walking when she came across the macabre remains that she now calls ‘the thing’.

    Expressing amazement that police search parties using sniffer dogs had not seen it earlier, she said: ‘I found it in the middle of the path.
    ‘It was white, and very clean, There were only the top teeth…I cried, and then I calmed down.’
    Unable to call anyone, Manon decided to put the skull inside one of two plastic bags she normally used to cover her feet when it was wet.
    ‘I could have left [the skull] but then, by the time I went back, it would no longer have been there,’ she said.
    ‘That’s why I picked it up, I know that on days with weather like this, if you wait, the mountain is no longer the same.’
    Manon said that she took care not to touch the skull, but she ‘did not know’ if her DNA had transferred on to the remains. Then I saw a huge fir tree collapsed on its side. I said to myself, “this is the fir tree that will serve as a landmark”.

    Convinced that someone might have been involved in Emile’s death, Manon said: ‘I was running, I wanted to hurry.
    ‘I said to myself “quickly, quickly, I have to bring the thing back and the police will find the culprit, the investigation will finally move forward.’
    Recalling her terrifying walk home, Manon said: ‘The whole trip, I carried the thing at arm’s length, because feeling the shape touching my body, terrified me’.
    She arrived home at 2pm, and left the skull on the terrace, before calling police, saying, ‘Bringing him into the house was inconceivable.’
    Detectives arrived at 3pm, and questioned Manon for nine hours without formally arresting her.
    ‘They were doing their job, I answered their questions, and that’s it,’ she said, adding: ‘The next day I didn’t expect it – search!’

    Manon said police took her electronic devices, before returning them a week later, and saying she was free to carry on with her normal life.
    Manon cried as she recalled her spoke about her ordeal to BFM, without any of her words being recorded by a camera.

  5. I don't think you can hold the grandparents accountable for This. toddlers run off all the time within seconds. Has anybody heard of the missing 411 cases. Because this sounds very similar. I think it's awful. They need to do a proper investigation. I'm pretty sure the grandparents are just as devastated. Four people and cahoots to murder a little boy come on that sounds a little bit desperate

  6. What possibly could little Emile have done to deserve this and that at the hands of the people who should have cherished him and protected him. Such a sweet little boy. Rest in Peace dear Emile.

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