Missing British boy found in France six years after disappearance
Kyiv • UNN
Alex Beatty, a British boy who had been missing for six years, was found in France at the age of 17; he had been living in a spiritual community but left it, missing his family.
A British boy who went missing six years ago, has been found in southwestern France. He is now 17 years old. This was reported by The Washington Post, reports UNN.
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Alex Beattie disappeared at the age of 11 during a family vacation. He is safe and well, British police told reporters.
On Wednesday morning, he was found by a delivery driver near the French city of Toulouse. The boy was then taken to the French police, and and his grandmother in Britain recognized him on a video call.
Betty is from Oldham, a small town near Manchester in the north of England. He went missing after traveling to Spain in 2017 for a family family vacation with his grandfather David Beattie and mother Melanie Beattie, who did not have parental custody of him.
Alex told the driver who picked him up that he had lived in Spain, and then in France in a "traveling spiritual community". But he decided to to leave, partly because he missed his family in Britain. He told the driver that he had been walking for four days.
The driver noticed that the boy had money, food, and water, and he also looked good physically, but said that he just wanted to live a normal life, see his grandmother again and have a normal future.
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