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Fabien Accidini couldn't believe his ears when 17-year-old Alex Batty told him he'd been "kidnapped". "I had to ask him to repeat" what he was saying, chiropractic student Fabien Accidini tells AFP during a game of pétanque with a friend in the village of Gréasque, 30 km from Marseille. The British teenager who had been missing for six years was picked up by Accidini in the middle of the night on a remote road in a mountainous area of southern France. SOUNDBITE
Images of the area near Chalabre, in southern France, where a UK teenager was found on Wednesday after disappearing in Spain six years ago when he was 11. Alex Batty, originally from the northern English city of Oldham, was picked up by a driver in a mountainous area. IMAGES
The bodies of three young fishermen who disappeared during the night of Thursday to Friday off the coast of Calvados after the sinking of their trawler have been found, Bruno Dieudonné, the public prosecutor of Le Havre, tells AFP. IMAGES
In front of the Charleville-Mézières gendarmerie, the lawyer of Monique Olivier, French serial killer Michel Fourniret's ex-wife, is hopeful that the body of murdered schoolgirl Estelle Mouzin will soon be found. IMAGES
France has more than a dozen cases of children with inflammation around the heart, the health minister says, after Britain sounded an alarm about a new disease with possible links to novel coronavirus. SOUNDBITE