German “forest boy” might have lived in Czech Republic: press

The German “forest boy”, known as Ray, who emerged from a forest near Berlin earlier this month and whose identity remains a mystery to the German authorities, might have lived in the Czech Republic and buried his father there, Germany’s Bild and the UK’s Daily Mail newspapers reported on Tuesday. The boy, who is believed to be between 16 and 18 years old, told the authorities he had been living out in the wild with his father for the last five years. When his father died weeks ago, the boy buried him and went north, as his father told him. The papers quote a spokesman for the German police as saying his father could possibly be buried in the Krušné hory mountains in northern Bohemia. Czech police have reportedly joined in the investigation.

Author: Jan Richter