A British teenager who was allegedly kidnapped by his mother six years ago has been found in France after fleeing across the Pyrenees. The 17-year-old was discovered in a remote area of southwest France, carrying only a skateboard and €100 in cash. He had survived by finding food in the fields as he made his escape.
A British teenager allegedly kidnapped by his mother six years ago fled across the Pyrenees after she announced plans to take him to Finland, French police have said. Alex Batty (17), told a passing driver “I need a future” after he was found in a remote corner of southwest France in the early hours of Wednesday, carrying only a skateboard and €100 in cash.
French police revealed on Friday that the teenager, who vanished while on holiday in Spain with his mother, Melanie, and grandfather, David, in 2017, had survived on “whatever he found in the fields” as he made a getaway across the Pyrenee
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