Alex Batty, a boy from Manchester (United Kingdom), was 11 years old when he disappeared from the radar screens near Malaga, Andalusia, with his mother and his maternal grandfather who did not have custody of him . Six years later, an incredible twist has just occurred. According to information from La Dépêche du Midi, everything suggests that Alex Batty was found on Wednesday near Toulouse. “The identity was confirmed by the family after a photographic comparison made by the gendarmes”, indicates in any case this Thursday morning the Toulouse public prosecutor’s office, cautiously specifying that “this is an investigation carried out by the British” .
For six years, Manchester police have regularly relaunched investigations by publishing calls for witnesses.
The young man on whom the checks are underway was picked up on Wednesday by a witness while he was walking alone on the side of a road in Lauragais and brought to the Revel gendarmerie. According to the regional daily, he himself gave his identity and may have left alone a traveling spiritual community passing through Ariège.
In 2017, whena grandmother of Alex Batty reported his disappearance, she suspected her ex-husband and her daughter of having enlisted him in an “alternative” sectarian movement.