Rome (AFP)
Rescuers relied on reinforcements and "new data" geographical Saturday in southern Italy to try to find Simon Gautier, a young French hiker who was injured eight days ago in a large rocky area.
"The search resumed this morning at 6am and new rescue teams must arrive," said an AFP law enforcement official. "We are also waiting in the day for new data to try to tighten up the research area, which is very large."
Friday, August 9, around 9:00 in the morning, this French who lives for two years in Rome to write a thesis in art history called the rescue with his mobile phone. According to the recording of the call broadcast by Italian media, he said he fell off a cliff and broke both legs, but could not say where he was, "in the middle of nowhere, on the side".
He hiked near Policastro, about 200 kilometers south of Naples. Lack of reliable data on the location of his phone, which no longer responds, the area of research, currently extends over 140 km2 and overflows in Calabria.
"There are very few antennas in this uninhabited region that can allow a precise location of the past call," said the head of law enforcement.
On the social networks, a friend of the young man present on the spot announced that the investigators had now "the certainty" that the hiker had left with reserves of food and water that could allow him to survive "more than 15 days ".
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