Alex Baty, the British teenager who disappeared for six years and was found this week in southern France, is expected to be returned to Britain this evening, a judge has announced.

The 17-year-old is traveling by air from Toulouse to London via Amsterdam on a KLM flight and is “accompanied by members of the British police services,” said Antoine Leroy, a deputy public prosecutor in Toulouse, in southwestern France.

He will return to his maternal grandmother, who was given custody by British courts before his mother abducted him in 2017 while on holiday in Malaga, Spain, where they had gone with his grandfather .

Alex Baty, who had been living a “nomadic” life in a “spiritual” community for six years, was found by chance on Thursday night by a delivery driver as he walked along a road in a mountainous area near Toulouse, the deputy prosecutor said. during a press conference on Friday.

“He is in good health, ‘very calm’, appears ‘intelligent’, according to the doctor who examined him, and does not appear to have been abused in the six years since his abduction. His mother, who has not been found by now, he might be in Finland, Leroy said during the interview.