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News items: gray areas around Alex Batty’s journey
The teenager found in France a few days ago, after having disappeared for six years, recounted his journey between Spain, Morocco and France. – (franceinfo)
The teenager found in France a few days ago, after having disappeared for six years, recounted his journey between Spain, Morocco and France.
On the morning of Saturday December 16, many gray areas still remain around the journey of Alex Batty, the young Englishman missing since 2017. He was found by chance two days ago, along a national road, by a delivery man during his tour. The young boy confides that he was kidnapped by his mother and grandfather to live within a spiritual community. Having left Spain in 2017, he then lived in Morocco before joining France two and a half years ago.
No physical violence
Here, he will move from town to town in Aude, the Pyrénées-Orientales and Ariège. “It’s a nomadic life, in which the only constants and the only things they take with them are solar panels and their vegetable garden.“, explains Léa Chambonnière, squadron leader of the gendarmerie of Villefranche-de-Lauragais (Haute-Garonne). The teenager claims to have never experienced physical violence. He decided to flee when his mother told him of their departure for Finland. According to the prosecutor, the mother has already left the country. The grandfather died six months ago.
