Overview
- Two bicycles were seized in December from the grandparents’ Haut-Vernet home and sent on December 16 to Professor Christian Doutremepuich’s Bordeaux lab for ultra‑sensitive DNA analysis.
- BFMTV, relayed by La Dépêche, reports the bikes were regularly used by the uncle, Maximin, 20, during his stays in the Alps.
- A source close to the case says the forensic examinations remain in progress, while La Provence reports the Bordeaux lab has transmitted results to investigators in Marseille.
- Maximin was present the day Emile disappeared in July 2023, and a neighbor’s account placed him, his sister Marthe and their father near the toddler shortly before he was reported missing.
- The family members were held in police custody on March 25, 2025 and released without charges, were heard again on December 9 as civil parties, and the gendarmerie’s dedicated unit continues to work the case.