Former police officer and convicted multiple times for domestic violence or harassment, Cédric Prizzon, has he targeted his ex-partner Audrey Cavalié? Before fleeing with their 13-year-old child, of whom he has been deprived of custody rights. This is the scenario currently being considered by the investigators in the Aveyron disappearances case.
In the case of the missing persons in Aveyron, a name now stands out as obvious to the investigators: Cédric Prizzon. Since Friday morning and the report of the disappearance of his ex-partner Audrey and their 13-year-old son, Elie, this former police officer from the Paris region is actively being sought. And as the hours pass, an increasingly alarming scenario emerges: according to our information, he may have killed his former partner before fleeing with the adolescent, from whom he had been deprived of custody. But he is not alone. His current partner and a young child have also disappeared with him. Since then, no signs of life. All phones are turned off. They have all disappeared from the radar.
On the Run Abroad?
Have they left France? The hypothesis is being taken very seriously. Signal alerts have been issued in all neighboring countries. The focus is particularly on Spain. A country that Cédric Prizzon knows well. In the summer of 2021, he had already taken his son by force. A first break. At the time, he had secretly taken Elie, accompanied by his new partner, Angela. An investigation for non-representation of a child had been opened. The run had lasted almost two months. And it was a troubling element that had led authorities to him: according to a source close to the case, Angela herself had alerted the authorities after a dispute with Prizzon. Will history repeat itself?
Meanwhile, the manhunt is underway. The Toulouse Research Section, a specialized unit of the national gendarmerie dedicated to the most sensitive criminal cases, has been deployed for support. Investigators are using phone data, analyzing images from roads, and cross-referencing each sighting. An abandoned vehicle, found near Parisot in the neighboring Tarn-et-Garonne, has particularly caught attention. To be continued. But Cédric Prizzon is a former police officer. He knows the procedures. He understands how an investigation works. This detail has not escaped the investigators, who realize how long and… complex the hunt could be.
An Obsession
The story of Cédric Prizzon is equally intense. To understand what may have happened in Vailhourles, we need to trace a recent past marked by violence, courts, and an increasing obsession. Originally from Lauragais, the strong-bodied man settled in the area by joining the rugby club XIII des Loups de Villefranche-de-Rouergue in 2011. It is there that he began a love story with Audrey Cavalié, from Vailhourles. They had a child, Elio. But one night in September 2020, everything unraveled. A knife dispute erupted at the couple’s home. On June 22, 2021, the court ruled: mutual violence conviction, six months of suspended prison for each. A decision that Prizzon would never accept, convinced he was the victim of judicial harassment.
A shared custody arrangement was put in place. One week with one parent, one week with the other. Elio was 8 years old at the time. But Prizzon, a former police officer familiar with the legal system, filed numerous appeals, complaints, and statements. He believed Audrey was manipulating the child. After his departure to Spain in the summer of 2021, along with Elio, Cédric Prizzon definitively lost custody rights. This time, he flooded his social media with videos denouncing this “scandal”, “a corrupt justice”… He even went to protest, through a hunger strike, in front of the Rodez courthouse, harassed lawyers, and troubled Audrey. According to our information, she was equipped with a distress phone.
“I don’t know what I have to do for this story to come out. I will go all the way, it must be known nationwide,” he said recently in videos. Since Friday, these words sound very different… Meanwhile, the clock is ticking.
