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The hidden drama about Friso
One year after the accident, the royal family is back in Lech
They are back again. Back at the place that Prince Friso (44) became destiny and changed life for all. Hollands royal family is in Lech am Arlberg (Austria). For decades the winter holiday home of Queen Beatrix (75).
But this year everything is different. This year, for the first time, she will again meet the man who was with her son when he was carried away by an avalanche: Florian Moosbrugger (43), hotelier of the "Gasthof Post", the royal family's royal hotel.
After the accident he was in shock, then he was allowed to say nothing, because investigations were running against him. But now he can tell Beatrix, Mabel (44), Willem-Alexander (45) and Maxima (41) about the terrible day - it is the whole truth about the misfortune that is now coming to light. "I immediately did everything to save the life of the prince, " remembers Moosbrugger to the dramatic scenes that have forever burned into his memory ...
It is noon at ten minutes past twelve when he and Friso are off the slopes on the 17th of February. The slope is not closed, but avalanche warning level 4 is the second highest. They check the terrain, see traces of other skiers. For them the sign that there is no danger. A fatal mistake.
The two drive into the hillside. At 12.15, the silence on the mountain is cut by a terribly rumbling noise. Ten meters above Friso a snowboard breaks and thunders into the depths. At Moosbrugger, an airbag opens in the backpack, holding it to the surface. However, the prince has none, is shaken by the avalanche like in a washing drum, loses all orientation. Snow and ice penetrate his mouth, obstructing the airways. Moosbrugger struggles to his feet, digging for his spilled friend with his bare hands. Shortly thereafter, mountain rescuers who are nearby help him.
These days in Lech, Queen Beatrix will learn how bad it was for her son when they found him. And how terrible it was when the ambulance from the rescue helicopter Gallus I began to resuscitate. How the surge of the defibrillator on Frisos chest his body.
Tragic: During the flight in the helicopter failed a battery of the device that supports the heart massage. A spare battery was connected. It took 50 minutes for his heart to beat again.
The dramatic truth of a tragedy. The royal family must now learn to live with her. The investigations against Florian Moosbrugger were discontinued in the meantime. And also Queen Beatrix does not blame him. Instead of blaming him, she hugs the desperate man and tries to console him ...
