MNCHEN. Eight-year-old Julia from Germany spent two days and two nights alone in the Czech Bhmerwald. The good fortune to have found her alive is still overwhelming for Prince Martin Semecky: “That was an incredible feeling, these emotions cannot be described in words,” said the Czech yesterday. According to the police in Bavaria, the girl is now fine again.
What was supposed to be just an excursion turned into a martyrdom: the girl from Berlin disappeared without a trace on late Sunday while hiking with her family in the Bavarian-Czech border region. In consultation with the operations command, Semecky and his colleagues searched a forest that was just outside the official search radius.
“She sat in the tall grass”
“Suddenly little Julia was in front of us, she was sitting in the tall grass,” reported the forester. When he said her name, the child only nodded her head. He said: “Everything is good, great!” Then he wrapped her in his green jacket and alerted the operations center. Semecky praised the girl’s perseverance in nature: “To do that, she must have been very skilled.”