Véronique and Laurent Blond have not given any sign of life since they left on the 16th March for a “little hike” to Sao Vicente, on the Portuguese island where they were on vacation. It was their 27-year-old daughter who, not seeing them return even though they had only left with two bottles of water, raised the alarm in the afternoon.

The prosecutor referred the matter to the Castelsarrasin research brigade and the Beaumont-de-Lomagne gendarmerie.