Overview
- Marseille research detectives searched the grandparents’ property at the Haut‑Vernet on December 16 and 22, seizing two bicycles and other items from a garage for examination.
- Authorities have ordered expert analyses of the seized objects, with the grandmother’s lawyer noting the items were long available and may prove routine yet warrant verification.
- Forensic anthropology previously identified a small lesion near the right zygomatic bone, indicating a violent facial trauma consistent with a blow inflicted by another person.
- Palynological and entomological findings suggest the child’s remains were stored for months in a semi‑enclosed location before being moved, and the recovered T‑shirt bore no signs of human decomposition.
- The grandmother’s counsel says she will submit written notes and requests for additional investigative acts to the examining magistrate in January, following early‑December hearings of family members as civil parties.