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Alex will live with his grandmother, six years after he was allegedly kidnapped by his mother and grandfather to live in Spain and the French Pyrenees
Alex Batty, 17, was picked up on the D16 - an unlit single carriageway country road between the French towns of Chalabre and Mirepoix - by Fabien Accidini, a chiropractic student from Toulouse.
Alex Batty, from Oldham, Greater Manchester, was just 11 when he did not return from a holiday to Spain with his mother Melanie, then 37, and grandfather David, then 58, in 2017.
Alex Batty, from Oldham, was just 11 when he did not return from a holiday to Spain with his mother Melanie, then 37, and grandfather David, then 58, in 2017.
EXCLUSIVE: Situated in the tiny hamlet of La Bastide with a population of just 15 people, the local mayor confirmed that Alex, now 17, had lived there with his grandfather David Batty since 2021.