2023-12-15 17:55:42
Alex Batty, the minor located in the south of France and who had been missing for six years, made the decision to leave his mother when she told him that they had to move to Finland, as explained in a press conference by the Toulouse prosecutor, Antoine. Leroy.
Leroy explained that Alex, his mother and his grandfather were in Spain and then in Morocco, before leading a nomadic lifestyle in towns in the French Pyrenees.
That is until this month when Alex decided to escape and return to his grandmother in Oldham, United Kingdom. To do this, he walked for four days before being found by a young French driver who handed him over to the authorities when he knew they were looking for him. In those days, the teenager who disappeared after a trip to Spain when he was 11 years old, mainly walked at night and slept during the day.
According to what the now teenager told the French authorities, the family was traveling “in a community with ten people at a time” and the minor was never enrolled in school.
According to investigations by the Prosecutor’s Office, Alex’s grandfather may have died six months ago, something that Alex attributes to a ceremony that took place in the community around that time.
French Police confirmed the identity of Alex Batty in images that had been made available internationally. However, some media suggest that a device that was able to find the minor last November failed. reports the newspaper La Depeche.
The minor could return to the United Kingdom this Saturday, but the prosecutor has declined to give more details to guarantee the privacy and safety of the British minor.
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