France are quite hot on child abduction, aren't they?
Does Chloe even:
Actually know the extremely convenient Verity and the people she lives with?
Have valid passports for herself and the baby?
Speak any French (or indeed Franglais, a very under-rated English dialect)?
Understand that green jumpers are illegal in France?
OK I might have made one of those up but it's still a rubbish plotline and writing. I come to Emmerdale for a bit of expensively-made professional entertainment, not to be handed a load of old twattery.
Next thing we know she'll be talking about her and Reuben taking out French visas and settling down there. Meanwhile the Hotten police will say there's no way, sadly, of tracing them, while Mack sends off his child support.
Moira will say an angry thing.
Mack will brood.
Charity will say that everyone has to move on / get revenge / do a conga.
Reuben will re-appear when he is ten years old without the slightest French accent, having been scouted from the Doris Barmcaster School of Drama in Manchester ('satellite studios in Leeds and Mexborough').