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Alex Batty affair: the young Englishman admits to having invented several elements in the face of French investigators
Alex Batty affair: the young Englishman admits to having invented several elements in front of French investigators – (FRANCEINFO)
Alex Batty spoke in the columns of the British newspaper “The Sun”. The young Briton, missing for six years before being found in France last week, admits to having invented several elements in front of French police investigators.
How much did Alex Batty lie to the French police? The young Englishman, found last week in the Pyrenees, gave a long interview to the newspaper “The Sun”. Six years after disappearing from the UK with his mother and grandfather, he admits to having invented several elements. His grandfather, whose death he had announced to investigators, was in fact in good health.
An investigation opened by the English police
Another lie: he never walked four days in the mountains. This was an exaggeration to cover his tracks in order to protect his mother and grandfather. It was following an argument with them that Alex Batty decided to flee on December 14. In “The Sun”, he returns to what pushed him to leave, citing in particular the fact that he had “no social life“. The English police, who interviewed the young man, announced on Friday December 22 the opening of an investigation into kidnapping. His mother and grandfather remain untraceable.
