"I don't want to live among people: now that you have found me I need to get out of here."
The doctor apparently left his home in Seville in 1995 during a bout of severe depression to live as a hermit in Maremma, Tuscany. He was declared dead 14 years later after his whereabouts were unknown.
His family tried to search for him in the woods on Saturday after the foragers' discovery, but he has disappeared again. Looking at his passport, his parents told Corriere Della Sera: "That's him - that's our Carlos. He is alive and that is the most important thing."
His mother Amelia added: "We respect his will and his freedom but we're not leaving until we have held him in our arms again - even if it is just for one last time."
