aLex Patti, a British man who disappeared six years ago in Spain and has now been found in France, explained that he lived in “spiritual communities” with his mother, grandfather and about 10 other people, and that he decided to escape because his family and his mother intended to take him to Finland, according to the authorities.
Antoine Leroy, assistant prosecutor in Toulouse, explained that Alex described his mother as “completely unstable,” Sky News reported.
The boy told police he decided the family’s nomadic life “must stop” when his mother suggested taking him to Finland. He decided to escape and walked for four nights in the French Pyrenees, sleeping during the day.
Alex, now 17, did not have a mobile phone, but he did have 100 euros, and on the way, he would take food from the fields and gardens he found.
The boy told authorities he lived in “spiritual communities.” After disappearing, I spent the next two or three years traveling around Morocco, before moving to the south of France.
According to the prosecutor, during the past six years, Alex moved from one place to another, with families from different countries. The societies in which they lived grew their own food, lived on solar energy, practiced meditation, and believed in reincarnation.
Recall that Alex Paty disappeared in 2017, at the age of 11, when he was on holiday in Spain, with his mother and grandfather. The pair do not have parental custody of the 17-year-old and are still wanted in connection with his disappearance.
At the time of Alex’s disappearance, his grandmother and guardian made several appeals to find him. The teenager is now in a youth center in Toulouse and is expected to return to the UK tomorrow, Saturday, to meet his grandmother, who is too frail to travel to France.
The young man was taken to the police station in Reville, near Toulouse, by a worried driver who discovered him on a road at the foot of the Pyrenees on Wednesday morning. It was from the cell phone of this man, Fabian Oxedini, that he tried to call his grandmother.
“The young man explained that he had been walking for four days and that he started from a place in the mountains, but he did not say where,” Aksedini said, adding that he searched for the boy’s name on the Internet and saw it. “He was being sought out.”
Accidini also revealed that the teenager’s plan was to find a big city with an embassy to ask for help. Instead, Accidini contacted French authorities for assistance.
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