Hair found by the boy who crashed in the well in Spain

José Sánchez, 29, has not slept much since Sunday. The desperation is too great, the concern for his son Julen is too unbearable (2). During the day, he and his wife Vicky (29) supervise the mountain rescue operation near the southern Spanish village of Totalán. The nights are spent in the car. He wants to be close to his son, says the fair expositor of Malaga to the Andalusian newspaper "Diario Sur". "However I am so far from him".

From Sunday afternoon, her child is stuck in a 107 meter deep hole. Twelve rescue teams with more than 100 rescue teams try to recover the child from the makeshift pit. So far in vain. First they drive a camera into the hole. Reaches 70 meters. Then he stops on a clod of earth that clogs the opening. It must be Julen.

Rescuers take out a bag of sweets from the well. So a cup. Finally they find their individual hair. "The DNA analysis confirms that they are from Julen," says Alfonso Rodríguez Gómez of the Andalusian government on "La Razón". But there is no trace of the boy himself.

On the one hand, rescue units want to use a special device to widen the hole, which is only 25 centimeters wide, while a horizontal side tunnel up to 80 meters long must lead across the slope to the shaft of the well. Since yesterday he is bored. Two days should continue the work. Waiting is a pain for Julen's family.

Only two and a half years ago they lost their first child Oliver († 3). He died of heart failure during a walk on the beach. Now, as the minutes pass, the hope that his second son can be recovered alive disappears.

José Sánchez recalls the day of the disaster in "Diario Sur": "We wanted to have a picnic on my cousin's property, I just put wood in the fire for a paella." Wife Vicky had to talk to her employer for a minute. José Sanchez should look for Julen.

It's 14 o'clock. Julen was suddenly 10 to 15 meters away. My cousin ran after him, called , »Continues José Sanchez. He saw the boy slip into the hole and disappear into the floor, arms raised. "A hole that her husband had practiced in December to get water … Illegal because neither the mine nor the water authority is a permit before, said the regional government spokesman against" El País ".

Julen's father hurried. With the power of the desperate, he freed the stones around the well that opened to the side. "I put my arm on my shoulder in the hole, I did not know how deep the tree was … My head was on the ground, I heard my son cry, I shouted," Calm down, your dad is here! " seconds later, the whining stopped, my father said. Hikers were quick to help. They alerted the police and firefighters. The dramatic rescue operation began.

But as the effort grows, so do doubts. Is Julen really in this hole? Why was the tree not covered? How can a large clod of earth clog the tree at a depth of 70 meters? How can a child slip into a 25 cm hole? Questions that pierce José Sanchez and his family in the heart.

There is no doubt about them. "My son is very small, weighs only 11 pounds, we saw him disappear in the duct, I heard him cry," says José Sanchez. He and his family are also disappointed by the recent rescue operation. "I do not want to say anything against the local people, but they have too little money available." When the first team arrived here, they did not even have a camera with them, making their cell phones shine in the well. "

The mayor of Totalán, Miguel Ángel Escano, agrees with the critics: "So far, only the improvisation took place, which is completely inadequate."