يواجه متسلقان هولنديان ملاحقة قضائية بعد أن تظاهرا بالمرض بعد تسلقهما لجبل حتى تعيدهما طائرة إلى الأرض.
وقالت هيئة الإذاعة والتلفزيون الهولندية اليوم الاثنين إن الصديقين الهولنديين تسلقا جبل ليتل جويل قرب سالزبورغ في النمسا في يونيو/حزيران، ثم كتبا في سجل المتسلقين عند القمة "سنعود بطائرة هيلوكوبتر"، ثم طلبا الإنقاذ بعد أن تظاهرا بالإعياء.
ويواجه المتسلقان السجن لمدة ستة أشهر أو دفع غرامة قدرها 2300 يورو (3100 دولار) في حال إدانتهما.
وقال المسؤول المحلي هلموت فورست لهيئة الإذاعة والتلفزيون النمساوية "نريد أن نبعث برسالة واضحة، وهي أن المساعدة وإجراءات الإنقاذ والبحث عن الرحلات لا يمكن أن تتخذ إلا عند الضرورة فقط، فهناك دائما مخاطر بالنسبة لفرق الإنقاذ".
المصدر:رويترز
Dutch climbers ‘feign exhaustion’ to get rescued
TWO TIRED Dutch climbers who “hitched” a lift off a mountain in Austria by pretending to be exhausted could be prosecuted for “flippant” abuse of the emergency rescue services.
The Dutchman and his female companion scribbled in the guest book at the peak of the Kleiner Göll (Little Göll), in the Hoher Göll range, near Salzburg: “We are going back by helicopter.” Then, on their descent back down the 5,500ft peak, they dialled for a rescue chopper to help them, saying they could not go any further.
After they were deposited in the valley below the man, 30, and woman, 27, said that the conditions were too slippery – and they were too tired – to go on. But a worker in the guest hut at the summit of the mountain alerted police when he spotted the guest-book entry.
“It seemed a clear case of a dangerous and flippant use of the mountain rescue service,” said Helmut Fuerst, who works for the rescue services in nearby Hallein. “There is no such thing as a free taxi service off the mountain merely for people who are tired.
“We brought a complaint against these people to signal that both Austrians and foreigners are treated equally under the law and obliged to pay. We cannot tolerate such an abuse of the emergency service.”
If the call-out had been genuine, they would still have had to pay. Austria insists that its social security system should not be burdened by the rescue of tourists. A week-long search for people missing on a mountain soon adds up to more than £20,000 in personnel costs alone.