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17 August 2019 The research of Simon Gautier, 27 year old Frenchman who has been lost since last Friday when he raised the alarm because he fell while he was doing a solitary excursion in the Gulf of Policastro, in Cilento, is still underway.

The area, as we learn from the Carabinieri who are conducting research together with the Fire Brigade and the Alpine and Speleological Rescue, is very inaccessible since it is a mountainous coastal area with several paths that, initially practicable, then become difficult to access. .

Airplanes and drones are also used to trace it
The search is made even more difficult by the fact that there are slopes up to 500 meters above sea level, so the military explains, the young man could have slipped and fallen into a hidden place that is difficult to see from above.

The call to 112: "I'm dying of pain"
The young man, who was injured during a solo excursion, had alerted relief efforts on August 9th with a desperate appeal to 112. "I am dying of pain, I fell into a cliff, I have broken legs, help me, I see the sea but I don't know where I am. "

Among the news also the images of the security cameras of Santa Marina, delivered by the mayor to the rescuers to prove his passage by Policastro. Even the Prefecture reassures. "We have put in place all the men and means necessary. We are really doing everything we can. Unfortunately, the area involved in the research is vast and impervious, and has rocky walls and cliffs overlooking the sea."

The family and the consul in place
To ask for help in these days, through the social networks, the family and friends of the young man, after his cell phone, which Gautier initially used to raise the alarm Friday morning, is turned off. The French consul, as we learn from the carabinieri, is on the scene and Simon Gautier's family is also on site and is constantly kept up to date.

The mother: "We need speleologists, help me find him alive"
Simon's mother, Delphine Godard, appealed for the young man's research to be intensified: "I ask for help, I want to find him alive - he said - we need speleologists, mountain climbers, firemen trained on the mountain, able to reach areas inaccessible. "I'm sure Simon fell. He could be in a crevasse."

"Despite their good will - added the woman - and the help the Italian rescuers are not numerous enough". Even Simon's friends wrote on social media asking for help: "Please, help us share, we need volunteers to continue the research".