• Also planes and drones to find Simon Gautier. The mother of the missing hiker: "Help me"
  • Between ridges and crevasses overlooking the sea: race against time to find Simon Gautier alive

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18 August 2019It is a race against time: research is limited to an area of ​​143 square kilometers between the territories of Policastro, Scario and Punta degli Infreschi. These are areas with crevasses and inaccessible paths that are not easy to reach.

A solidarity race was launched to find Simon Gautier: in addition to the official rescuers' teams, there are dozens of volunteers who in these days, even with the help of drones, scour the many hilly paths of the Gulf of Policastro.

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"
Yesterday, 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 again - 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 enough numerous". Even Simon's friends wrote on social media asking for help: "Please, help us share, we need volunteers to continue the research".