A court in Portugal on Saturday remanded in custody a French woman and her partner accused of abandoning her two young boys -- aged four and five -- on a roadside in the south of the country.

La mère et le beau-père de deux garçons retrouvés seuls au bord d’une route dans le sud du Portugal ont été arrêtés par la gendarmerie local

Two French boys, aged 4 and 5, were left by a remote road with backpacks of food but no identity documents.