{"id":265139,"date":"2026-05-22T16:16:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T12:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=265139"},"modified":"2026-05-22T16:23:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T12:23:44","slug":"french-national-arrested-after-allegedly-abandoning-2-children-on-a-street-in-portugal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/265139\/","title":{"rendered":"French national arrested after allegedly abandoning 2 children on a street in Portugal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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, Reuters<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

GNR, a gendarmerie-style police force, said in a ⁠statement it had detained the 41-year-old woman and a 55-year-old man in the town of Fatima, “both suspected of ⁠abandoning the two children found alone.”<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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, Reuters writes. French authorities had ⁠issued a Europe-wide request to help find the woman and children, aged 4 and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":265134,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265140,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265139\/revisions\/265140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}