A teenager from Britain, who was found in southern France after disappearing six years ago, is expected to return to his family in northern England in the next few days, Manchester police said on Friday.
Alex Batty disappeared at the age of 11 during a holiday with his mother and grandfather to Malaga, Spain, in 2017 — and both are still wanted in connection with his disappearance.
Greater Manchester Police (GMP) told a news conference on Friday they were working with the French authorities to bring Batty back to Britain, and to his grandmother, who British media have reported was his legal guardian.
"Alex and his family remain our focus and we still have some work to do in establishing the full circumstances surrounding his disappearance and where he's been in all those years," Greater Manchester Police assistant chief constable Chris Sykes said.
A French newspaper reported a delivery driver spotted the teenager wandering along a highway in the region around the southern city of Toulouse, after having fled a spiritualist mountain community in the Pyrenees mountains.
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