Overview
- The body of a young child was discovered in a roadside embankment near Onhaye on Monday, August 24, and authorities say items at the scene make it plausible the child is five-year-old Tyméo; formal identification awaits an autopsy.
- Investigators found personal effects near the location and are examining them as part of forensic inquiries to link the body to Tyméo and to establish how the child died.
- Searches for the boy’s father, 29-year-old Bryan Brigou, are ongoing and local authorities organized a battue in the area after the discovery to try to locate him.
- Earlier reporting says Brigou was under electronic monitoring for a prior violence conviction when he and his son went missing on June 27 and that the monitoring bracelet is not geolocatable, a detail investigators are reviewing.
- The Namur prosecutor’s office has emphasized that the cause of death and the full circumstances remain unknown and that all investigative lines are open as forensic results and witness accounts are processed.