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00:08 C.I.S.T. A rare testimony in the case of the disappearance of little Emil.
00:13 For the first time, François Balik, the mayor of Vernay, has agreed to publicly express himself on this nightmare he has been going through since July 8th, with the inhabitants of his town.
00:27 And his opinion on this mystery is rather clear. At 73, he probably didn't imagine such a summer.
00:37 Mayor of Vernay for several decades, François Balik C.I.S.T. has been plunged into horror since July 8th and the still mysterious disappearance of little Emil, two and a half years.
00:55 But while the gendarmes still have no serious lead that could find him, he has agreed to give himself to the fate of the boy with our Belgian brothers from Sudinfo.
01:06 And his opinion is clear. He hasn't been here since. Emil doesn't stop evaporating, it's not possible.
01:16 I am convinced that, dead or alive, he is no longer here.
01:24 I participated in all the searches, in all the beatings.
01:29 We would have found him if he were still in Vernay. I am convinced that dead or alive, he was moved by an adult, he explains in this first interview given abroad.
01:45 A constant point of view and which must even be strengthened over time, a few weeks ago, just after the beatings, he had indeed already evoked this hypothesis for the point, explaining that he thought of a madman or someone from Machiavellian.
02:02 Continue to live for the village but how to find the one who will have the key to the mystery? It is not totally up to the gendarmes designated to carry out the investigation, the mayor of Vernay has only one thing in mind, continue to live, in a village where beautiful things are happening and will continue to happen while waiting for all this to be over.
02:21 But not easy, since early July, difficult to get rid of this permanent mystery.
02:29 Even if he beats him, it could have happened anywhere else.
02:36 Is it certain that this story marks by its mysterious aspect?
02:43 It's getting long but we continue to trust the investigators.
02:52 They do what they can, he explains first in Sudinfo, before defending his decisions, sometimes criticized by those who make too many unjustified hypotheses, when I closed the commune, it was said that it was to hide something.
03:07 It remains an unexplained riddle and we are waiting for the results of the investigation of the gendarmes who do excellent work.
03:18 For the moment, nothing happens, it stays calm.
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