Six years after disappearing, Alex Batty, a young Englishman, was found in Revel in Haute-Garonne. He decided to leave the sect into which he had been recruited by his mother and grandfather.
It’s an incredible outcome. Six years, after to have disappeared, Alex Batty17, reappeared in Revel, near Toulouse, in Haute-Garonne, this Wednesday, December 13, 2023. The teenager from Manchester, United Kingdom, was allegedly driven by a truck driver, according to our colleagues at Noon dispatch, at the Revel gendarmerie in the Lauragais. The Toulouse public prosecutor confirmed the identity of the young boy this Thursday, December 14. “The identity was confirmed by the family after a photographic comparison made by the gendarmes”indicates in any case this Thursday, December 14, 2023, the Toulouse public prosecutor’s office, cautiously specifying that it “this is an investigation carried out by the British”according to our colleagues from 20 minutes.
In 2017, the young boy, then aged 11, traveled with his mother and grandfather, both of whom were forbidden from contact with him. It was after a trip to Spain and more particularly to Malaga, in Andalusia, that his disappearance was reported by his grandmother on September 30. For her, her daughter and her ex-husband led her grandson into a cult. An investigation was then opened by the Manchester police. The young man would then have been reported several times in recent years in Morocco and Spain.
According to the Dépêche du Midi, Alex Battyhis mother and grandfather would have regularly stayed between Ariège and Aude in recent weeks within a traveling spiritual community. But the teenager decided to leave the group a few days ago, on foot. “After days of hiking, Alex Batty is taken in stop Tuesday evening by a trucker at the side of a departmental road.“The latter led the young man to the Revel brigade, in the Lauragais.
Contacted this morning, the gendarmes did not reveal any information in this investigation led by the Manchester police.