Alex Baty, the British teenager found this week in France six years after he disappeared, will be repatriated this weekend and reunited with his grandmother tomorrow or Sunday, Toulouse prosecutors said.

“We will hand him over to his maternal grandmother tomorrow or Sunday at the latest,” said Deputy Public Prosecutor Antoine Leroy, who contacted Britain’s ambassador to France to arrange the 17-year-old’s repatriation.

As the teenager’s grandmother suffers from a disability, she will not travel to France herself but Alex will depart for Britain from Toulouse or Bordeaux.

At the press conference given by Leroy, the two police officers who the teenager spoke to when he was located by the French authorities were also present.

Leroy described the “odyssey” of Alex Baty, his mother Melanie Baty and his grandfather David Baty, who went from Spain where they were on holiday to Morocco and then to the French Pyrenees where they stayed in various areas such as Aude and Aries. For six years, two of which were in France, the child lived a “nomadic” life in a “spiritual” community but never stayed in the same place for more than a few months, according to the prosecution. In those six years, the 17-year-old says he did not suffer any physical abuse, but claims he was sexually abused “when he was little”, at the age of 5 or 6, by “some member” of his family. “He didn’t tell us more,” Leroy emphasized.

The prosecutor described a “smart and very calm” young man who decided to run away after his mother told him she intended to leave for Finland. The woman is probably already in this country, without the grandfather, who died six months ago.

Alex, who only speaks English, had been walking for four nights, heading for Toulouse, when he was spotted at 3am on Wednesday by a young deliveryman who took him to the Saint-Felix-Lorage police station.

The case of the child’s disappearance is being investigated by British justice.