The French region home to hippy communes ranging from conspiracy theorists to doomsday cults: Ariege, where Alex Batty has spent the last two years, is infamous for its 'alternative' lifestyle groups including one led by convicted paedophile
Alex Batty, from Oldham, Lancashire, went missing in 2017 when he was just 11. Detectives believe his mother and grandfather took him as they went to live an 'alternative lifestyle' in southern France.
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