Emile Soleil: Grandparents arrested on suspicion of toddler's murder in French Alps

Emile Soleil mysteriously vanished in 2023, in a case that made headlines across France.

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The two other people arrested on suspicion of voluntary homicide and concealment of a corpse are adult children of Emile's grandparents, prosecutors said in a statement.

The grandparents' lawyer, Isabelle Colombani, told AFP on Tuesday morning that she had no comment, having "only just heard" about the development.

Last year, some of the toddler's bones and clothes were found by a hiker near the home of Emile's maternal grandparents in the French Alps, where the boy had gone missing the previous summer.

But prosecutors at the time said that the remains offered no further clues as to the cause of Emile's death, adding that it could have been as a result of "a fall, manslaughter or murder".

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