British boy lost for six years found in France
A British boy who disappeared six years ago is set to return home in the coming days after a driver discovered him walking along a roadside in southern France.
Alex Batty has not been seen since he was 11 years old, after being taken on holiday in Spain in 2017 with his mother, “who did not have legal parental guardianship,” and his grandad, according to a police appeal released in February 2019.
Batty, now aged 17, was found in Haute-Garonne, near the city of Toulouse.
British police say they do not have details on where Batty spent the past six years, but Fabien Accidini, a French motorist who rescued Batty from the side of the road, said the boy had been living in France for the past two years “in a spiritual community.”
Accidini said Batty told him he was “kidnapped by his mother” in 2017, before spending three years in Spain and two years in France.
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