Ex-French Officer Arrested in Portugal over Kidnapping and Suspected Murders

Portuguese authorities have detained Cedric Prizzon, a former Paris police officer, after stopping him with his two children in northern Portugal. Officers discovered a pump-action shotgun, fake documents, bogus number plates and a large sum of cash in his vehicle. Police say they later unearthed two bodies buried in an isolated area, believed to be those of Prizzon’s current partner and his ex-girlfriend. Identification procedures and forensic analyses are ongoing. Prizzon, a fathers’ rights activist who lost custody of his son in a bitter legal fight, appeared before a judge in Vila Nova de Foz Côa. Local residents chanted “Killer! Killer!” as he entered the courtroom. The children are set to be returned to France, where investigators had been searching for him since the women disappeared last week.

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