Story update, 09:00 September 22 – Mystery Woman in Croatia: Daniela from Slovakia?
September 21, 2021 – New details have emerged in the case of a mystery Krk woman. An empty wallet has been found, and a local shopkeeper has revealed the woman visited her kiosk.
Nine days after the discovery, the police failed to establish the identity of the woman on Krk who is currently in the Rijeka Hospital.
The woman was found by members of the HGSS on Sunday, September 12, between Rudin and Čižić, and she was exhausted and dehydrated. Although so far it is only known that she speaks fluent English, in a conversation with a saleswoman at a nearby kiosk, Vecernji List learned that the woman allegedly also speaks Croatian.
A saleswoman in Krk said that when she visited her kiosk, she spoke Croatian, and she also knew how to ride the bus on lines around the island.
24 Sata reported that Czech media revealed that the could be Slovak. The portal tn.nova.cz transmitted the testimony of Czech tourists who claim to have met her.
“I met her on Thursday, September 9, in Drvenik, near Makarska,” a reader who was on vacation in Croatia with her husband told the Czech portal.
“She told us about how she travels and that she is retired, and her friends are still working. So she went on the trip alone. Because she was afraid of a 14-day quarantine upon her return to Slovakia, she turned off her phone and removed her SIM card,” they added.
“She also wanted to go to Lika, which is still far from the island of Krk. She was very intelligent, she told us that she had been in England for some time, so she spoke English well,” the tourist concludes.
“I can confirm that we received information about the woman from the witness. We forwarded them to the Croatian police and, if necessary, we will help in the investigation,” said the spokesman of the Czech police, David Schön.
Earlier today it was reported that the police found the woman’s backpack on the shore quite far from where she was found.
However, the contents of the backpack did not provide investigators with the desired information about her identity. In addition to mosquito spray and some other small items that every tourist would take with them on a trip, a wallet was found in the backpack, but without documents and without money. This is an important detail because it is unusual that there is nothing in a wallet.
Police have repeatedly sent an appeal to the media for help to find anyone that recognizes the woman. International media also picked up the news.
British media have already written about the woman on several occasions, and the story was also published by CNN.
Daily Mail reporters spoke to the fisherman who first spotted the woman.
“In English, she shouted ‘please help’. As it was difficult to approach the area where she was, and we were in a boat, we called the rescue service,” the fisherman said.
An investigation into her identity is still ongoing.
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