Photograph released of Berlin ‘forest boy’ nine months after he walked out of woods

Ray told police he had walked north for five days to reach Berlin after his
father died in a fall and he buried him “in a hole in the forest
underneath some stones”.

Police sought help from Interpol to help identify the teenager and received
dozens of letters from across the world from people believing he may have
been a lost relative, but all were discounted.

Despite exhaustive investigations that included DNA analysis and linguistic
studies police said they were no closer to finding the truth and “had
great doubts about his story”.

“We have conducted all the investigations we know how,” Thomas
Neuendorf of Berlin Police told local media.

“We have compared his DNA with international missing persons lists, we’ve
made public appeals, we’ve sent his fingerprints around the world to see if
he was involved in anything picked up by authorities anywhere but have come
up with nothing.”

At first police released a photofit of the boy in the hope that someone would
recognise him but they were unable to do more without his consent.

“He has only now – after intense discussions – finally given us
permission to release a photograph of him and we are appealing for
information about who he is,” the police spokesman said.

The boy said he thought his birth date was 20 June 1994, which would mean he
turns 18 years old next week. He is being cared for by social services at a
youth housing project and is attending a school in Berlin.

“At some point he will have to be given a family name, a nationality and
an official date of birth – that is the law in this country,”
said Mr Neuendorf.

Police have consistently voiced scepticism of his account. “There is
something strange about this whole story,” Mr Neuendorf said.

“Whenever we want to go into details with him, he breaks it off, saying
both of his parents are dead, and that no one else knows him. He seems to
have an astounding lack of interest in finding out who he is.”

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