Chania: « If Johann had endured another quarter » – what the volunteer leader says
Theodoris Viglis, head of the Chania Mountaineering Association of Volunteer Association, who identified the German tourist, Johann Williams, just a month after his disappearance in the Samaria Gorge, said that if the 21 -year -old would have been able to withstand a quarter.
« He would find the mitus he would enter and live, » he said.
The head of the six -member volunteer team spoke to ERT Chania.
The Samaria Gorge.
How was the unlucky Johann detected
« We organized a group of six people, I personally talked to his sisters and took advantage of the details they gave me. His journey, the conversations, I combined the time, I calculated about it that could be and with many hope we started finding him, if he was on the way, if he was following the route, « he said.
The team of volunteers overnight in a mitus, as the stone houses of the shepherd in the White Mountains are called and the investigations began early in the morning.
Something red he found while looking with binoculars last night by Thodoris Viglis, which was proven to be the 21 -year -old's backpack, led the team to the Poles area about 1,600 meters to Gigilos and there they found the corpse of the unfortunate German.
« The message is that we should not overestimate our strengths »
The head of the volunteers informed the unfortunate 21 -year -old sisters. « I am not a forensic doctor, I think that his strengths abandoned him, he was hypothermia, the weather was adverse, and there he was lying there to die, he was left, » he said.
« The message is that we should not overestimate our strengths, unfortunately what he did was suicide. He overestimated his forces and they abandoned him. «
'We are relieved that at least we can have him back'
ERT also spoke to 21 -year -old Johann's sister.
« We are relieved that at least we can have him back, » he said, thanking the help the family received in the efforts they themselves made to find their man.
In fact, next Friday they were going to return to start a new investigation operation.
However, their dramatic developments have caught up. Tomorrow, the 21 -year -old's relatives are expected in Chania to receive Johan's body.
