“I heard my mom screaming”: Cédric Prizzon’s son recounts the murderous journey of his father, accused of double feminicide in Portugal

Like every day after school, Mattéo* gets on the bus which takes him home, to Vailhourles, a stone village between hills and woods, in Aveyron. He goes through his garden gate, picks up a package from the mailbox, climbs the steps of his house then sits in front of the television set to have a snack. His routine was disrupted on March 19 when Cédric Prizzon, his father who no longer lived with him, arrived. “He told me he was taking me and my things and we were leaving. Except that there was a change of program,” recalls the 13-year-old teenager during his hearing before the gendarmes in April 2026 to which Le Figaro had access. For the first time, Mattéo recounts the deadly spiral into which his father dragged him to the Serra da Nogueira, in the north-east of Portugal. A spiral in which the boy will be forced to keep watch while his father buries two corpses.

It was in this pretty house in Vailhourles that the first act of this murderous journey took place...