Laurent and Véronique Blond were last seen on March 16, in Sao Vicente, on the Portuguese island where they were on vacation. The day before, all three had returned from a long hike.
The searches are carried out on site with “ significant search resources (...) immediately mobilized on site,” says the public prosecutor in Montauban. “I'm lost, I have the impression that all the avenues are absurd in fact,’ says Pauline Blond, the couple's eldest daughter.