France police find remains of toddler missing in the Alps
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Le Vernet, France: French investigators have found the remains of a toddler who went missing last year in an Alpine village in a case that shocked the...
Le Vernet, France: French investigators have found the remains of a toddler who went missing last year in an Alpine village in a case that shocked the nation, and are working to determine how he died, a prosecutor said Sunday.
Two-and-a-half-year-old Emile Soleil vanished on July 8 last year while staying with his grandparents. Two neighbours last saw him walking alone on a street in Le Vernet, 1,200 metres (4,000 feet) up in the French Alps.
"On Saturday, the police were informed of the discovery of bones near the hamlet of Le Vernet," prosecutor Jean-Luc Blachon said. He added that genetic testing had shown they were the boy's remains.
"This heartbreaking news was feared," the child's parents said in a statement released by their lawyer, Jerome Triomphe.
The parents, both devout Catholics "now know on this Resurrection Sunday that Emile watches over them in the light and tenderness of God," it said. "But the pain and sorrow remain".
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