2023-12-14 21:21:11
By Le Figaro with AFP
Published 3 hours ago, Updated 1 hour ago
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The young man then disappeared while on vacation abroad with his mother and grandfather.
“Complex and long search”
For its part, the police of Greater Manchester, in the northwest of England, where the boy is from, indicated in a press release that they were in contact with the French authorities to obtain details. “It’s a complex and long search. “Additional investigations are necessary.”, said a spokesperson for Greater Manchester Police. According to the BBC, which cites a police source, the young man, who is in good health, claimed not to have suffered ill-treatment.
Nearby Parisian a young deliveryman and chiropractic student from Toulouse, 26 years old, Fabien Accidini, said he picked up the young man during the night from Tuesday to Wednesday. “I was on the road between Camont and Chalabre when I first came across this young man who was walking with a flashlighthe tells our colleagues. He was in the rain, with a skateboard under his arm and a backpack. Once my medication was delivered, I knew I was going to go back the same route so when I saw him again, I offered to get in and drop him off wherever he wanted. He didn’t hesitate to get into my van.” The young British man told him that he had fled a traveling religious spiritual community, which lives between Aude and Ariège where his mother took him. She was the one who kidnapped him six years earlier.
“Illuminated”
“He told me that his mother was a little enlightened, that life in this community did not please him, that he had left on his own because he wanted to have a normal life. He didn’t say if he escaped but he really wanted to find his grandmother.said the Toulouse resident Parisian. “He didn’t seem stressed, but relieved that I took him in my car and offered to take him to Toulouse. I looked up his name online and saw the wanted posters and photos of him at 11 years old. I do not believe it ! I then suggested that he call the police, which he accepted.he declared again.
He had disappeared abroad during a vacation with his mother and grandfather, recalls the British media. His grandmother, who had custody of him, told the BBC in 2018 that she believed Alex’s mother and grandfather had taken him to live in a “spiritual community” in Morocco. According to her, they did not want the teenager to go to school and were looking for an alternative lifestyle.
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