Overview
- Portuguese police located two buried bodies in a remote area Wednesday, believed to be the suspect’s current partner and ex-partner, with formal identification and cause of death still pending.
- Cédric Prizzon, 42, was stopped Tuesday in Mêda during a roadside check with his 12-year-old son and 18-month-old daughter, who were recovered alive and unharmed.
- Officers seized a shotgun, fake identity papers, numerous false license plates, and about €17,000 in cash from his vehicle, reinforcing investigators’ view of a planned escape abroad.
- French prosecutors opened a judicial investigation for kidnapping and unlawful confinement, and French gendarmes have joined Portuguese authorities on the ground to coordinate the case.
- Autopsies and evidence checks are underway in Portugal, the children are being prepared for return to France, and extradition of the suspect is being considered as his prior convictions and loss of visitation rights frame investigators’ next steps.