00:01A Portuguese court has remanded in custody the mother and stepfather of two French children
00:07that had been abandoned on a roadside earlier this week.
00:11Considering the couple a flight risk, the court ordered the 41-year-old woman and 55-year-old
00:16man to be placed in pre-trial detention for the crimes of aggravated assault,
00:21endangerment and abandonment of the boys after a two-day hearing.
00:25The case has drawn widespread attention in Portugal and France since the two small boys
00:30were found on Tuesday evening crying beside a road near Alcácer do Sal.
00:36The couple was arrested Thursday by Portuguese authorities in the central town of Fatima
00:41and brought before an investigating judge on Friday at the court in the southern port city of Stubal.
00:46The children have been placed with a French foster family in Lisbon pending their return to France.
00:54The children have been placed in the supervision of the繊 śm except to subtract from next dinner.
00:55The children have been placed in the impeachment
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