Chilling CCTV footage has revealed a French couple on their way to abandon their young children in a woodland in Portugal. The mother, 41, and stepfather, 55, were both arrested yesterday for allegedly dumping their young boys, aged five and four, in a woods hundreds of miles from where they grew up. The young boys were found wandering down a rural road between the Portuguese towns of Alcacer do Sal and Comporta on Tuesday evening at around 7pm. The parents were arrested in the city of Fatima, 124 miles north of Alcacer do Sal. The brothers told the local couple that found them that their parents had abandoned them on the N235 road with nothing more than a change of clothes, two pieces of fruit and two bottles of water. After the boys were taken to hospital, an investigation was launched to understand how on earth they came to Portugal. New footage obtained by local media showed the boys innocently playing in their parents' car at a petrol station in Miranda do Douro, near the border with Spain, after they arrived in Portugal. The stepfather appears to be driving the grey car as he pulled it into the petrol station. Both he and the mother, from Colmar in eastern France, were seen getting out of the vehicle before walking over to an attendant. New footage obtained by local media showed the boys innocently playing in their parents' car at a petrol station in Miranda do Douro, near the border with Spain The boys could be seen clambering around in the grey car as the parents filled the car up