Alex Batty will be returned to his maternal grandmother, who had custody of him before the child was taken by his mother in 2017.
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A six-year-old disappearance is nearing its conclusion. Alex Batty, the British teenager who was missing for six years before being found in France on December 13, will be repatriated to the United Kingdom on Saturday December 16 “at the end of the afternoon”the deputy prosecutor of Toulouse told AFP.
The 17 year old young man “will be accompanied by members of the British police services” during his journey from Toulouse to London, said the magistrate. He will then be returned to his maternal grandmother, to whom British justice had entrusted his custody before his mother kidnapped him in 2017 during a vacation in Spain.
The young man had led a life for six years “nomadic” within a community “spiritual”. He was found in the middle of the night by a delivery driver after he had escaped and been walking along a road for four days, the deputy prosecutor said during a press conference Friday evening. He is in good health, appears to be of “sharp intelligence” and does not appear to have suffered any abuse during the six years that his kidnapping lasted. The mother, untraceable to date, could currently be in Finland, the magistrate indicated.
