The recovery operation to retrieve the body of Gautier. The body of the 27-year-old French hiker who disappeared more than a week ago south of Naples was found on Aug 18, 2019, local Italian authorities said. Gautier called for help on Aug 9, saying he had fallen down a cliff and broken both legs, but was unable to give his location other than 'in the middle of nowhere, on the coast'. — AFP/CNSAS press office
PARIS: Badly injured on a cliffside in southern Italy, a French hiker called emergency services this month, but he could not tell them exactly where he was after a fall that broke his legs.
It took rescuers nine days to locate Simon Gautier's body, but it could have been found much sooner had Italy installed a new emergency mobile phone geolocation system that is in operation in a dozen European countries, according to the European Emergency Number Association (EENA).
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