After selecting him up, the driving force introduced him to the gendarmerie police.
{The teenager} informed French investigators, based on the AP, that he is spent the previous few years touring along with his mom and her father as a part of a “religious neighborhood,” deciding to half methods after he says his mother informed him of plans to maneuver to Finland.
“When his mom indicated that she supposed to depart for Finland with him,” prosecutor Antoine Leroy mentioned at a information convention, per the outlet, “this younger man understood that this journey needed to cease.”
Alex walked by way of the agricultural a part of France for 4 nights, per the AP, surviving off “various things that he present in fields or gardens,” based on prosecutors, earlier than he was picked up and led to security.
Shortly after his return, Alex’s grandmother, Susan Caruana, expressed her pleasure at studying of his destiny.
“I can’t start to precise my reduction and happiness that Alex has been discovered protected and properly,” she mentioned in a press release obtained by AP. “It was so good to listen to his voice and see his face once more.”
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