The case of Alex Batty was a mystery to the authorities. In the last few hours, the discovery of him after six years missing has shocked Europe. Batty was 11 years old when he disappeared during a family trip to Spain in 2017. This week, the young British man, now a teenager, was found wandering in the mountains of Aude (France). It was Fabien Accidini who picked him up in his vehicle, according to the young man's testimony to Dépêche du Midi. Accidini has revealed what the moment of the raid was like.
"I had been walking in the mountains for more than four days!" explained this chiropractic student in Toulouse. Fabien, while he dedicates himself to studying, also works delivering medicines to pharmacies, often at night. "Around two in the afternoon, between two pharmacies, near Chalabre, in Aude, I met a young man on the road," he explained to the French media. "He was walking while the rain fell in large drops," he continued.
After observing the "tall and blonde" young man, Accidini offered him to get into his vehicle. The Frenchman claims that, after three hours of conversation in French and then in English, Alex Batty tells him his story. "It's an incredible story, I still don't realize it today," Fabien Accidini told BFMTV. "He said his mother had kidnapped him when he was 12 years old," he said. "Since then he lived in Spain in a luxury house with about ten people. He would have arrived in France around 2021," he revealed.
Apparently, Alex Batty would have left the community in which he lived between Ariège and Aude to join his family in England. After four days of walking through the mountains, he "was thirsty." According to the British, he was free to leave this "spiritual community, far from classical life" in which his "somewhat crazy" mother lives. "He didn't have any animosity toward her, but he really wanted to find her grandmother," the medicine delivery man explained.
"He was much more relieved to have left and have a new normal life [...] He was fed up. He didn't see his future there," he continued revealing to the aforementioned medium. Furthermore, Fabien assures that the missing young man tried to send a message on Facebook with his own phone to his grandmother. According to the Toulouse prosecutor's office, the young man's family confirmed that it was indeed him and that he should return to England in the next few days, where he will be interrogated by British investigators, who will help clarify this case that has so surprised the French media.
