Overview
- New anthropological findings identify a small lesion near the right zygomatic, consistent with a violent blow likely delivered by a third party, possibly using an object.
- Forensic entomology and pollen analyses indicate the body was kept for months in a sheltered, not fully airtight indoor setting typical of an agricultural space, and the yellow T-shirt showed no traces of human decomposition.
- A neighbor remains the last known witness, reporting the blond toddler in a yellow T-shirt walking downhill around 5:15 p.m. in the Haut‑Vernet hamlet.
- Investigators are concentrating on a seven‑to‑ten‑minute period during which the grandfather, uncle and aunt say they searched nearby before the disappearance was reported at 6:12 p.m.
- The grandparents, an uncle and an aunt who were questioned in March 2025 were interviewed again on December 9 as civil parties, and the inquiry remains open with no charges as investigators scrutinize family timelines, including the grandfather’s.