Portugal police detain French woman suspected of abandoning two children

Portugal’s National Guard (GNR) said on Thursday it had detained a French woman suspected of abandoning her two young children, who were found earlier
this week walking alone along a road in a small Portuguese town.
French authorities had issued a Europe-wide request to help find the woman and children, aged 4 and 5, after their father reported them missing from their home in the town of Colmar, eastern France.
Portugal’s Judicial Police (PJ) said in a statement earlier on Thursday that the children were discovered on Tuesday along a road in the town of Alcacer do Sal,in the Alentejo region, apparently lost after being abandoned by their mother, who they did not identify.