Émile is a golden-haired boy just two and a half years old who united the French and prays for his speedy location. The little one has been missing since Saturday, July 8, 2023, when he left his grandparents’ house.

Two people claim to have seen him go “alone” down a street. More is not known.

The child, the AFP agency reports, had just arrived at the house of his maternal grandparents in Haut-Vernet (South-East France) to spend the summer holidays.

The house is in a “village in the Alps, with 130 inhabitants”, La Vanguardia adds.

After the complaint, authorities and residents toured the area, but until this morning on Wednesday, July 12, the results are not bearing fruit.

Today it is impossible to stop remembering what happened to the girl Madeleine McCann, who disappeared since 2007, but occurred in Portugal.

“We are not going to stop the search, we are not going to give up hope. We will continue on the spot and adapt the search to meet the needs of the investigation,” Prefect Marc Chappuis assured a swarm of microphones on Tuesday, July 12.

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According to La Vanguardia, not enough importance seems to be given to his disappearance at first because the area was “peaceful”.

They trusted that he would return under his own power, as they say, he left on Saturday afternoon, July 8.

The grandparents prepared the car after 5 p.m. (5 p.m.) to go on a short afternoon excursion with Émile, the press reports. However, five days later, an important and different piece of information emerged.

The boy was apparently in the garden of the house, a safe place. For reasons unknown, Émile left

The vanguard

The quest

Those Spanish media reported that some 800 people had been deployed to find the child and had a helicopter and drones at their disposal.

The village is activated in the search for Émile. Photo: NICOLAS TUCAT/AFP

Firefighters and rescue workers have arrived in the village. The authorities emphasize the solidarity of the community, say the aforementioned Spanish media.

The Public Prosecution Service has published the photo of the child in the hope that someone will provide information.

The media repeated it and reported that “Émile is 90 centimeters tall, has blond hair and brown eyes. He was wearing a yellow T-shirt and white shorts with green lettering. Wear sports shoes”.

The family has “sunk” and a new version emerges

The prefect of the department, Marc Chappuis, said according to La Vanguardia, that he had spoken to the child’s family and described that he found it “submerged”.

To expedite the search, police resorted to “using an audio message from the child’s mother to get a response,” Antena 3 reported.

In the house, the relatives of the minor receive ‘psychological help’.

We do not have any element to suggest that there was any criminal offense in the disappearance

Rémy Avon, prosecutor of Digne-les-Bains, on Antena 3

On Thursday, July 13, El Mundo reported that the ground search had been suspended, revealing a detail that emerged from the investigation that contradicts something that had been going on since last Saturday.

They said: “There is only one new element and that is that, according to the French press, the child was not alone with his grandparents at the time of his disappearance, as was believed, but rather there were other people in the house that weekend.

According to the BFMTV network, a family reunion of sorts was held with a dozen people, including some of the little boy’s uncles. It is a big family, with 10 brothers and sisters”.

The memory of Madeleine McCann

The girl Madeleine McCann mysteriously disappeared in May 2007 in Portugal, where she had been on holiday with her parents for a few days.

Gerry and Kate McCann left her on the 3rd of that month in the apartment they had rented in Praia da Luz, in the Portuguese Algarve. Next to “Maddie” were her little brothers.

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The McCanns were having dinner with some friends at a restaurant in the same tourist complex in Praia da Luz when the strange disappearance happened.

Since April 2022, a suspect has been detained in Germany for the media event. The person under investigation is Christian Brueckner and to date the case remains a mystery.