His family have criticised local authorities, saying they took too long to organise search and rescue efforts.It is not clear why Mr Gautier's mobile phone could not be located using a GPS tracking system. The latest news and views from France written in English“It is with great sadness that I learned that Simon Gautier’s body was found dead in Italy tonight,” French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said in a statement.“I thank the Italian authorities who mobilized to find him,” he added, while the relatives of the young man have for several days denounced the lack of resources committed to trying to find him.Italie – Décès de Simon Gautier (18.08.19) – France-Diplomatie – Ministère de lâEurope et des Affaires étrangères On the spot, some media announced almost instantaneously the discovery of the body in Belvedere di Ciolandre, on the coast about 200 km south of Naples, while carabineers and alpine rescue confirmed it in the evening.According to several media reports, a member of the alpine rescue team scanning the area with binoculars spotted the young man’s backpack from a distance, then his still body near him. A team dispatched to the scene could only note the death.Relief workers, however, chose to wait for daylight Monday morning to evacuate. An investigation should then be opened to determine the causes of death and whether the young man could have been saved.Simon Gautier, who had been living in Rome for two years to write a thesis in art history, had left Policastro Bussentino on Thursday, August 8, for a solo hike to Naples. The next day, shortly after 9:00 am, he called for help with his mobile phone, explaining that he fell off a cliff and broke both legs.But he could not tell where he was. “In the middle of nowhere, on the coast” …“From the moment that Simon’s call for help reached the carabinieri (…), the operations began immediately to geolocate the phone,” said the Salerno prefecture, which depends on the area, in a statement Saturday. A complicated operation because there are very few antennas in this uninhabited region.According to Simon Gautier’s relatives, relief efforts have been slow to mobilize. The first helicopter took off only 48 hours after the call for help, and shore crews had long been few in number for a rugged research area of ââmore than 140 km2.And it was not until a week later, when the Policastro commune broadcast images of surveillance cameras showing the passage of the young man, in a black tank top and Bermuda jeans, that witnesses said to have sniffed the evening of August 8th on a beach where he seemed to be preparing to spend the night.These testimonials and “technical data” related to his phone have allowed to narrow the search around the three trails he had been able to borrow in the morning from this beach.During the week, small teams of experts and dozens of volunteers, shepherds and inhabitants of the area but also about twenty of the young man’s relatives came looking for him. His family have called for an investigation to determine the cause of his death and whether it could have been prevented. These are external links and will open in a new window Simon Gautier, 27, made a plea for help on 9 August, saying he had fallen down a cliff and broken both legs while walking in Salerno in south-west Italy. “I am devastated, we were hoping up until the last minute that Simon was still alive,” said Asha, a Danish student who shared an apartment in Rome with him. Missing Hawaii hiker found alive after two-week ordeal
A team dispatched to the location then found small traces of blood on rocks near a footpath.
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