He disappeared six years ago, now Alex Batty has been found.
The 17-year-old, originally from Oldham (Manchester), was identified by police in Revel, east of Toulouse, on the basis of a portrait included in the file distributed to Interpol after the complaint presented by his family in 2017, when he was just a child and on holiday in Spain with my mother and grandparents.
It seems he showed up at the town's police station accompanied by a motorcyclist. According to the first and still fragmentary information that has bounced across the Channel, he said that he had lived in France for the last two years and that he had not been mistreated: and in fact he appeared in good shape.
According to his grandmother, Susan Caruana, who at the time had secured de facto parental authority over him as a guardian recognized by the judges against the backdrop of a complex family situation, Alex would have been removed from her guardianship by the same mother (her daughter ) and his grandfather: they then intended to have him grow up in Morocco within a spiritual community, a sort of sect which the two had joined in search of "an alternative lifestyle" and whose dictates stipulated that the child "should not go at school".
(Unioneonline/ss)
