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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Ashifa Kassam and Mabel Banfield-Nwachi

‘I feared for my life’: stories of sexual harassment on the Camino de Santiago

A person walking on the Camino de Santiago passes a field of sunflowers
Hundreds of thousands of people undertake the pilgrimage along the Camino de Santiago each year. Photograph: Alamy

It was on the outskirts of the northern Spanish town of Mieres, as she raced past colourful houses built of stone and wood-framed windows, that Sara Dhooma wrestled with the possibility that she might die.

Minutes earlier, the Canadian had been walking a remote section of the Camino de Santiago. After noticing a man was following her, she ducked into a cafe. When she re-emerged, the same man was seemingly waiting for her along another part of the ancient network of pilgrimage routes. This time he unzipped his trousers and grabbed his genitals.

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