Madrid, December 16 (European Press) –
Briton Alex Paty, who disappeared in Spain in 2017 when he was 11 years old and was found this week in France, will return to the UK on Saturday with his grandmother and legal guardian Suzanne Caruana, the French prosecutor said. office.
The Toulouse prosecutor’s office reported on Friday that the young man had been received by social services and that he should be returned to his homeland “quickly.”
His mother and grandfather Patty were kidnapped during a holiday in Marbella, and since then he has been living in a mobile “spiritual community” in the mountains between Arièges and Oude, on the French side of the Pyrenees, according to French broadcaster BFMTV.
When his mother informed him that they were leaving for Finland, the 17-year-old left the community with the intention of joining his family in England. The young man walked for four days and four nights. The delivery man found him in a cart in the middle of the night.
He wrote on Facebook after borrowing the deliveryman’s phone: “Hello, grandma, this is Alex. I’m in France, in Toulouse. I hope you get this message. I love you, I want to go home.”
Susan Caruana was able to speak with her grandson on the phone. “It was like a dream when I talked to him and he was amazing,” she said.
Patty will travel to Oldham, near Manchester, where his grandmother lives, while British police continue the investigation to determine the whereabouts of the minor’s mother. The French authorities are also investigating possible sectarian behavior in the aforementioned sect.