Overview
- The family, through lawyer Fabien Arakélian, asked Monday for Cédric Prizzon to be transferred to France under a European arrest warrant.
- Cédric Prizzon, a 42-year-old former French police officer, remains in pre-trial detention in Portugal after a March 25 roadside arrest in Guarda with his children.
- Portuguese police confirmed autopsy findings that Audrey Cavalié, 40, and Angela Legobien, 26, died by asphyxiation after their bodies were found buried in the Bragança district.
- The lawyer said Audrey Cavalié’s body was repatriated to France last Thursday, and French prosecutors in Montpellier have opened a judicial inquiry but have not commented on any arrest-warrant request.
- The Union nationale des familles de féminicides called the case emblematic of institutional failings and urged rapid extradition, pressing Gérald Darmanin for clear steps to secure a swift handover.