Remains of missing French toddler Émile Soleil found in French Alps

Bones were discovered near the hamlet of Le Vernet, close to where the boy went missing in 2023

French police are searching for clues to how a boy who disappeared eight months ago died after the discovery this weekend of his partial remains.

In a case that shocked France, Emile Soleil, aged two and a half, vanished in July while staying with his grandparents in a hamlet in the French Alps. A massive air and land search at the time found no trace of the child.