An 11-year-old went missing in Spain 6 years ago. He has just found his way in another country

Alex Batty is a boy from Great Britain who disappeared in October 2017. It happened during the holidays he spent with his mother and grandfather in Marbella, Spain. The 11-year-old was last seen in the port of Malaga. For the next few years, the boy’s fate remained unknown.

Alex Batty from Great Britain found his place in France

However, on December 14, the French prosecutor’s office provided surprising information. It turns out that the boy was found in Revel in south-eastern France. , the teenager was traveling on foot. When a man driving there saw him, he offered him a ride. During the journey, Alex told him an amazing story. As he confessed, for a long time he lived in a traveling commune in a remote part of the Pyrenees, cut off from the world. Finally, after many years, he decided to leave the family. It was because his mother seemed strange to him and he didn’t want to live a life like hers.

Alex Batty disappeared over 6 years ago. He was finally found. Grandma: “It’s a big shock for me”

The boy planned to find the embassy to get help. The driver he was traveling with took him to the police station. From there, Alex contacted his grandmother and British officials. – I’m incredibly happy. I talked to him, he’s feeling good now. It’s a great shock for me, said the boy’s grandmother, Susan Caruana, in an interview with The Sun. The woman was the boy’s only legal guardian.

The disappearance of Alex Batty. She had her suspicions

The police search that was initiated after the boy was reported missing did not bring any results. In 2018, his grandmother gave an interview to the BBC in which she shared her suspicions. The woman claimed that her grandson’s mother and his grandfather could have taken him to a spiritual community in Morocco. As she claimed, they both wanted to live an “alternative” life and, among other things, did not support the boy studying at school.