whariwharangi said:







Diario de León

http://www.diariodeleon.es/noticias/...no_979812.html These articles are about an incident near Santa Catalina de Somoza just West of Astorga at a rest stop along the camino. I speculate that this incident is what has caused Ivar to post his warning.Diario de León Click to expand...

Here is an English translation I worked with to try to clarify the article for those of you without the ability to read in Spanish or work around the google translator:English translation:All alarms came back last Saturday afternoon when two men tried to kidnap a woman walking through an area near the Camino de Santiago as it passes through Santa Catalina de Somoza, in the town of Astorga. Local residents explained to this newspaper that this is not the first time that similar events are logged in the environment, sometimes to be reported some uncertainty in this area. In fact, it is the same section in which approximately one and a half months ago, Denise Thiem was lost track of, an American pilgrim who has been gone since April 5, when she sent an email to an friend and greeted 'from Astorga "also telling him that she intended to continue to El Ganso. And for that there is no alternative but to follow the Camino de Santiago, where Santa Catalina is a must if the usual route is followed.In line with the investigations to clarify the whereabouts of this pilgrim [Denise Thiem], of whom nothing is known, it has emerged that one of the lines that shuffled the security forces was to analyze the testimony of other women who have acknowledged having been "harassed" and "disturbed "in this same area.It seems that nothing is casual, but at the moment, the task is trying to find out whether or not there is a relationship between all cases. Finally, recorded on Saturday at about five in the afternoon, the victim is not a pilgrim but a neighboring villager who had gone for a walk and to play sports as usual. It was then, while walking down a near Pilgrim's Way area, near the rest area for pilgrims, when CAF saw two men who were in a small dark car... one made a gesture, "as if they had a question and would like to ask me something," acknowledges the victim, who asked not to approach individuals too. That's when I saw one of them while the other wore the partially covered face, got out. She maintained at all times a safety margin that allowed her to run away when she saw something strange in the intentions of the two men. However, when starting the flight the man who was out of the vehicle and closer to the victim managed to take her arm, causing bruising. Still, the neighboring Santa Catalina woman managed to escape and ran up to hide in nearby bushes. The two individuals lost track of her , but she knew that one of them tried to follow her. The other man did not get off the car.After managing to escape and hide, she sounded the alarm, calling and asking for help. At that point, neighborhood sources, police officers and Civil Guard moved in to collect evidence and try to find the two men.Now, in addition, it remains to be clarified whether these events have any connection with the events from before, or if there is a relationship with [Denise Thiem], th pilgrim disappeared. Although this stretch of road has been combed exhaustively, her whereabouts are unknown, nor are there clues.