From Manchester, England, Alex Batty left for Marbella, Spain with his mother at the age of 11. It was September 2017 and the plan was to go on vacation. While in Malaga, the teenager disappeared.

After six long years, Batty was found in France, the BBC reported on Thursday, December 14, 2023 and EFE.

Alex Batty was in the town of Revel, east of Toulouse. The way he ‘appeared’ is as mysterious as the situation of his disappearance. The “core” of all this is knowing “where he was and with whom,” a police chief said. The same teenager reportedly described belonging to an apparent cult.

In addition to his mother Melanie, his grandfather, David Batty, traveled to Spain with Batty, the press confirmed.

The connection with grandmother

“Hello grandma, I’m Alex. I’m in France, Toulouse. I really hope you get this message. “I love you, I want to come home.” The now 17-year-old young man sent that message to his grandmother via Facebook, Antena 3 reported on Friday, December 15, 2023.

Hours later, Manchester Police Deputy Chief Chris Sykes announced that “the young man and the grandmother spoke on a video call last night (Thursday) and while she is happy that it is in fact Alex, we obviously have to move on. checks when I return to Britain.”

Relatives stated that it was the boy when the information was revealed that he had been found in France.

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What happened to Alex Batty

Grandmother Susan Caruana told the BBC in 2018 that she suspected Alex’s mother and grandfather David Batty had taken her grandson “to live with a spiritual community in Morocco.”

The fact that Melanie and David were apparently “looking for an ‘alternative’ lifestyle and did not want Alex to go to school” raised doubts for the grandmother, BBC Mundo reported.

According to EFE, Caruana has not yet located custody of Alex and his mother and grandfather. When they went on a trip to Spain in 2017, the idea was to spend a week in that country.

Caruana is shocked by the news she has been longing for for six years: hearing about her grandson. She was expecting him in England on October 8, 2017, but was instead informed of the strange disappearance.

“I’m so happy. I’ve spoken to him and he’s doing well,” Caruana told The Sun newspaper, quoted in the BBC. “It’s very surprising,” he said.

Did Alex Batty live in a cult?

To the man who found him in France “he explained that he had been walking for four days, somewhere in the mountains, but he did not say where.”

Were you in a cult? While they were both in the car, Onda Cero published: “Alex told her that he had been kidnapped by his mother in 2017 when he was only 11 years old and that he had been living in a luxury house in Spain with about 10 people. part of a ‘spiritual community’, before moving to France around 2021.

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The young man told him that ‘he had been walking through some nearby mountains for more than four days in an attempt to return to England.’

Accidini, who doubted the testimony, said, according to the BBC: “I looked up his name on the Internet and I saw that they were looking for him.”

The also surprised man recorded the conversation in his mind and this is what Onda Cero reported: “He did not regret leaving the community, he just wanted to live a normal life, see his grandmother again and have a normal future , that’s the word.” that he used.”

(JO)