Ramblers discovered the bones of two-year-old Émile Soleil close to the isolated family home from here he went missing last year.
Detectives launched a frantic search for the boy after he went missing last JulyRemains belonging to a little French boy who vanished without a trace eight months ago have tragically been discovered in the Alps.
A statement released by public prosecutors in Aix-en-Provence on Sunday said 'genetic analysis identifies' the bones as belonging to Èmile. Advertisement There had been no trace of Émile since, with investigators refusing to rule out any theory for the tragedy, including abduction and murder. Mr Vedovini is a devout Catholic who gave up a vocation to become a monk, in order to marry his wife, Anne Vedovini.
The macabre discovery on Saturday was today described as a key breakthrough in a criminal enquiry that has baffled detectivesIt also confirmed that Mr Vedovini – who denies any wrongdoing and was not charged with any offence following the child abuse investigation – ‘has attracted the attention of gendarmes and constitutes one of their many lines of enquiry.’
Mr Vedovini, who was known as Brother Philippe when he worked at the school between 1991 and 1994, was implicated in the enquiry as an ‘assisted witness’. At the time, Mr Soleil was an activist linked to Action Francaise, the far-Right nationalist and royalist group, as well as the neofascist Bastion Social.
He confirmed that Émile's parents' home, in the southern town of La Bouilladisse, near Marseille, was searched back in July, while the grandparents homes nearby, and in the Alps, were also raided.
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