Missing French Toddler: Who are little Emile's parents and grandparents?

Updated on August 2, 2023 at 5:51 PM

In an article dated July 20, our colleagues in Paris Match learned more about the identity of the parents and grandparents of Emile, who is still missing.

Missing French Toddler: Who are little Emile's parents and grandparents?

Little Emile has been missing since July 8. In their edition of Thursday July 20, French publication, Paris Match sought to find out more about the boy's family environment.

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Emile's grandparents

The couple lives in the town of La Bouilladisse in the Bouches-du-Rhône region. They bought their home in Haut-Vernet in the early 2000s, to spend their summer vacations there, surrounded by their ten children. Émile's grandfather is an osteopath with a practice on the village's main street. Several of the magazine's sources described the head of the family as a 'hot-tempered' man.

'According to one witness, he didn't hesitate to spank his children, and didn't like the fact that Colomban was not strict enough with Émile', reported our Paris Match colleagues.

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Marie and Colomban, Emile's parents

A discreet couple in their twenties, Marie and Colomban live in a 'modest two-storey house under construction' not far from their parents' houses. Colomban, a Centrale Lyon graduate, is a structural engineer from Aubagne. Marie, Emile's mother, is the eldest of her siblings and a housewife. Emile's father is 'a former member of Action Française'who 'for a time was active in the Bastion Social unit in Marseille.' This intrigued the investigators. He appeared before the Aix-en-Provence correctionalcourt in 2018, following accusations of alleged assaulton people of foreign origin. He was eventually acquitted.

Preserving their privacy

Emile's family has chosen to protect their privacy during this difficult time, and little information has been released about their personal lives. They have asked that their privacy be respected as they go through this ordeal.

This article has been translated OMMFR

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Source:

Paris Match: Émile : retour sur la disparition mystérieuse du Haut-Vernet (newspaper version)