A PRIEST connect to the family of Emile Soleil has allegedly committed suicide and left a chilling warning before the boy’s grandparents were arrested on Tuesday.
Another shocking twist has hit this case after Father Claude Gilliot, who baptised the two-year-old, reportedly left a suicide note.
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Father Claude Gilliot, 85, has allegedly killed himself
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The two-year-old vanished in 2023 from a holiday home in France.
Grandparents Philippe and Anne Vedovini, both 59, were arrested at dawn on Tuesday, after the police raided their home near Marseilles.
Father Gilliots alleged death has sent another chilling twist into this mysterious case as the Roman Catholic priest had reportedly fallen out with Philippe and Anne.
The grandparents, along with Emile’s aunt and uncle, were arrested on Tuesday and charged with “intentional homicide” and “concealing a corpse”.
Father Gilliot was once extremely close with Philippe and Anne but their relationship recently turned sour.
The priest frequently expressed his emotional angst during the saga, and it emerged today that he allegedly “took his own life” last Saturday week at his home in Aix-en-Provence.
His cause of death was reportedly “a massive overdose”, according to a investigation source.
This shocking death is particularly rare for Catholic priests to take their own lives as it is viewed as a mortal sin, on par with murder, in the church.
Father Gilliot also left an apparent suicide note behind with a chilling message.
The nore reportedly said: “Warn my sister. Tell her I love her. Tell my brother-in-law, I love them.
“Love alone matters. Proclaim the Gospel. God is good and merciful, O sweet Jesus, gentle and humble of heart.”
The priest and the grandparents publicly fell out after Father Gilliot provided a photo of Emile to the media when he was missing, in an attempt to find him.
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