In France there is a possible turning point in the investigations on the mysterious death of little Emile Soleil, who between 2023 and 2024 deeply shaken the country: four adults were arrested, including the child’s grandparents. Four people ended up in handcuffs today for “voluntary murder” and “concealment of corpse”, announced the Aix-en-Provence prosecutor in a press release consulted by the newspaper Le Figaro.
For the disappearance and death of Emile, 2 and a half years, in July 2023 in the Alps of Upper Provence, theThe grandfather Philippe Vedovini and his wife and “two of their adult children”, or the uncles of the little victimwe read in the note of the Prosecutor, according to which “these police arrests are part of a phase of verification and comparison of the elements and information collected during the investigations carried out in recent months”.
“This morning, March 25, 2025, Philippe Vedovini and his wife, grandparents of Emile Soleil, as well as two of their adult children, were arrested on charges of voluntary murder and concealment of a corpse by the investigators of the research section of the Gendarmerie of Marseille,” said prosecutor Jean-Luc Blanchon.
According to the information collected by Le Figaro, these stops by the police take place in the premises of the Research section of the Gendarmerie of Marseille. The identity of the other two people in custody, the uncle or aunt of the child, was not immediately made known, but the investigation suddenly focused on the family circle.
In addition, several other family children will be heard in a voluntary hearing. According to reports from the newspaper Le Figaro, the analysis of the flower, seized in recent days by about fifteen investigators, was not decisive for the decision to arrest the four members of the Emile family.
“Investigators are also carrying out forensic operations in different places in the country”, added the prosecutor, who specified that “further communication will be made following the conclusion of the current actions”. The lawyer of the grandparents, Isabelle Colombani, confirmed to the FP that they were placed in police custody. “I have no comments to do, I just discovered it,” said the lawyer.
Emile, two and a half years, He had disappeared on July 8, 2023, after arriving for the summer holidays in the second home of his maternal grandparents, In the hamlet of Haut-Sarnet, in the Alps of Upper Provence. Despite several days of research by citizens and “judicial raids”, no trace of the child was found. For nine months the investigations did not produce anything concrete, until the discovery, at the end of March 2024, by a passerby, the skull and the teeth of the child, about 1.7 km from the village, or 25 minutes of walking for an adult.
On March 14, The investigators of the “Emile” cell of the Research section of Marseille, who for almost two years have been investigating tirelessly on the death of the baby, have carried out a “night” blitz in Haut-Sarnet (Alps of the Alta Provence), where a large flock was seized.
The funeral of the baby took place on February 8, in the Basilica of Saint-Maximin-the-Sainte-Baume (VAR), in the presence of the whole family. «The time of silence must give way to that of truth. We can no longer live without answers, we still don’t know what happened to Emile, “the child’s grandparents had declared to BFMTV. Several hundred people attended the religious function celebrated according to the rite of San Pio V, according to the desire of Emile’s parents, fervent traditionalist Catholics such as his grandparents.