Europe 1 with AFP 11:40 a.m., April 5, 2024, modified at 11:41 a.m., April 5, 2024
Portuguese authorities announced the discovery on Thursday of the body of a woman who could be one of the members of the French tourist couple missing since March 16 on the island of Madeira. The two French nationals had gone for a “little hike” on March 16 but have not given any sign of life since.
Portuguese authorities announced the discovery on Thursday of the body of a woman who could be one of the members of the French tourist couple missing since March 16 on the island of Madeira. The body was spotted at the end of the day by another foreign hiker who was hiking through a mountainous area in the municipality of Sao Vicente, police commissioner Joao Gois told the Lusa news agency. New searches continued Friday morning on the north coast of the Portuguese island in the hope of finding the other member of the couple, AFP learned from the police.
A couple disappeared during a “little hike”
The public prosecutor in Montauban, in the south of France, announced last week the opening of an investigation into the worrying disappearance of a French couple from Beaumont-de-Lomagne (Tarn-et-Garonne). ). The two tourists, who run a bakery according to the French press, were on vacation on the island of Madeira and have not given any sign of life since they left on March 16 for a "little hike" in Sao Vicente.
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 the same day, the prosecutor said in a press release.