In the race against the clock to find the young French hiker, Simon Gautier, missing since Friday, August 9, near Policastro, about 200 km south of Naples, his family and rescue have collected two tracks that specify the area of research.
After leaving the village of Policastro last Thursday, August 8th, Simon Gautier was seen on the beach of Molara, inside the Cilento National Park. The telephone operator confirms the zone and specifies that he turned off his smartphone at 19:30. He will only turn it on again the next morning at 6.30 am, the day of his accident. And there, a second testimony seems to specify even more its course. A shepherd would have seen Simon at the entrance of the village of San Giovanni a Piro. For his relatives, who are always present in Italy to look for him, it corresponds quite to the types of villages that Simon sought for his hike.
The disappearing area becomes clearer
So they will ask this Sunday the CCTV footage of the city of San Giovanni a Piro to confirm the presence of Simon Gautier on Friday, August 9 in the morning. Behind, there are 2 or 3 trails that Simon could have borrowed from San Giovanni a Piro .... including a route through the forest, impossible to rake for the helicopter of Italian civil protection.
Since Saturday, the Italian relief has strengthened their device. It involves police forces, Alpine and Speleological Rescue and teams of Civil Protection volunteers under the technical and operational coordination of firefighters.
In addition, Simon Gautier's family still hope to recover the GPS coordinates of his phone. But if Google can provide them, it is only at the request of the Italian authorities, recalls the American company.