2023-07-09 14:05:00
A two-and-a-half-year-old child, who was being looked following by his grandparents in their home in Le Vernet, a hamlet in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France, disappeared on Saturday evening and remained actively sought following by gendarmes and police on Sunday. firefighters, according to the prefecture and the gendarmerie.
“A judicial inquiry has been opened by the public prosecutor of the Digne-les-Bains judicial court”, specifies the press release from the prefecture. The investigation for “disturbing disappearance of a minor” was entrusted to the research section of Marseille, indicated the prosecutor of Digne-les-Bains, Rémy Avon.
The little boy, named Emile, was playing in the garden of his grandparents’ house when he escaped their vigilance, disappearing on Saturday evening around 6 p.m. in an area whose surroundings are steep.
“From 6:40 p.m., an important search system for the child was implemented,” the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence prefecture said in a statement on Sunday.
Dog teams, two helicopters, one with a thermal camera, as well as drones also equipped with thermal cameras were mobilized to find the child, according to the gendarmerie and the prefecture.
The search continued until the middle of the night and resumed Sunday morning at 06:00. About forty gendarmes, including soldiers from the high mountain gendarmerie platoon (PGHM), are taking part, as well as regarding twenty firefighters and volunteer residents, according to the same sources.
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