How Did a French Imposter Manage to Pose for 6 Months as a Vanished Teen Runaway?

The 23-Year-Old Child

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Frédéric Bourdin was a young French man who was wanted by Interpol for making his way through youth shelters in Europe by impersonating missing children. By 1997, he had landed at one such shelter in Spain, posing as a 16-year-old.

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