Alex Batty has been missing since 2017 after going on holiday to Malaga (Spain) with his mother and grandfather. The 17-year-old boy sent a message to his grandmother, who has legal custody: “I love you, I want to come home.”
A young Englishman 17 years That He disappeared in Málaga (Spain) six years ago was found in Toulouse (France), the BBC reports.
According to the British public broadcaster Alex Batty He was found on Wednesday morning in the town of Revel, near Toulouse, and relatives confirmed his identity to the local prosecutor’s office.
The teenager has been missing since 2017 after going on holiday to Spain with his mother and grandfather. According to the grandmother, who has legal guardianship, both wanted an alternative life and did not want the little one to go to school.
Apparently a motorist picked him up when he saw him walking on a road in the Pyrenees with a backpack and scooter. The young man explained I had been walking for four days, after leaving a mountainous place, which he could not complete. Batty had apparently lived in it a nomadic community in different parts of the world, the last two years in the French state.
The young man is currently in the care of social services, awaiting the arrival of British police and consular staff to return him to England.
After he’s found, Batty He sent a message to his grandmother, his legal guardian, via social networks: “Hi! I’m Alex. I’m in Toulouse, France. I hope you receive this message. I love you, I want to come home.”
His grandmother Susan Caruana told the newspaper The sun that he has already been able to talk to him and that he is doing well “despite the circumstances”.
Source: EITB
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