43-year-old Petersburg woman Natalya Balandina came with her daughter to the resort to unwind after the death of her mother

Petersburg woman Natalya Balandina could not leave her eight-year-old daughter Nastya in a Tunisian hotel room and go to the beach, relatives are sure. The woman was also not going to spin novels with foreigners. All this speaks not in favor of the charges on which Natalia faces the death penalty.

The eldest daughter of Natalia was the first to know about the tragedy. Pregnant Anya was waiting for her mother and sister in St. Petersburg. They were supposed to take off on the night of May 13-14. But half a day passed, and the relatives did not come and did not call.

First, I got a call from a travel agency, - said Anna Alekseeva on the air of "Russia-1". - They said that Nastya is dead. And what about mom is unknown. I did not let go of the phone. Then, in the late afternoon, after an examination, they reported that they suspected my mother.

According to the Tunisian investigation, the woman strangled her own daughter and left her in the hotel bathroom, and then went to sunbathe. Mother, seemingly calm, was found on the beach. But Natalia's eldest daughter is sure that this is a lie.

Yes, my mother often visited hot countries, went to rest. But she never sunbathed, - explained Anna. - From the sun it was covered with spots. Therefore, I went to the beach only late in the evening or early in the morning. And she did not like the sun, even though she herself was born in the south.

The mother was detained and is not even allowed to leave the country to say goodbye to Nastya, who will be buried in the Kuban. Meanwhile, another version is in the air. It is believed that the baby could have been killed by a certain Italian, with whom Natalya began a holiday romance.

Natasha had no time for novels, - Natalia's father told the channel. - She had just buried her mother, she was under severe stress. And she went on vacation with Nastya to unwind.

Relatives and the public refuse to believe that a Petersburg woman could strangle her beloved youngest daughter with her own hands. Experts suggest that Natalia was deliberately brought under the article. After all, Tunisia, which lives off tourism, does not need tragic events in hotels.

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A year later, investigators have not brought charges against Natalya Balandina [video]

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Natalia Balandina. Where is the truth?

Shame on you! Leave Natasha alone, do not bother her, - says Balandina's father Valentin Artemiev to me. - She is doing well. Lives, works, more and nothing to add.

- How good is that?- I am surprised. - She's under investigation.

Yes, everything ended there, everything is fine. There is no need to poke around with this topic.

- I do not understand. Do you care who killed Nastya?

Well, let the investigation find out, but I won't talk about this anymore.

Now it’s hard to believe, but a year ago, Balandina’s father himself was looking for meetings with journalists. “Save my Natasha,” grandfather almost knelt in front of the cameras. Together with Natasha, they performed on a TV show, she knocked out a tear from herself and the viewer, he spoke for two.

Balandina returned from Tunisia with a broken arm, but she does not say exactly where she broke it. Later, her dad considered this question to be incorrect.

How can a mother be suspected of killing her own child! - the impressionable audience groaned.

If we omit all emotions, then Natalya still has not explained how it happened that her eight-year-old daughter returned from a resort in Tunisia in a coffin.

Inconsolable mother

This story happened last May. 43-year-old Natalya Balandina went with her daughter Anastasia to Tunisia on vacation. On May 13, on the day of their flight back, Nastya was found dead in a bathroom in the resort of Mahdia. The girl was lying in the water. Local experts found out that the death was unambiguously violent - someone strangled the child. And it was most likely done by an inexperienced person.

The police found Natalia only three hours later on the beach of another hotel. She was with a suitcase, documents, dressed and for some reason with a bottle of virgin vinegar. Obviously not in myself. She answered questions about the death of the child in a confused way. Local investigators arrested her.

When the news reached Russia, a scandal erupted. With shouts of "They are beating ours!" the Internet community defended the inconsolable mother. No one could believe that it was her, it was much easier to shove on someone from the hotel staff or some foreigner.

Check if the child was also raped before that. They can there, - the “couch” experts didn’t quit.

She is innocent

At home, Natalia urgently organized a collection of material assistance. Her eldest daughter Anna asked for help to all those who were not indifferent. The girl posted the video message on the social network, thereby launching the start of donations.

At first, everyone felt sorry for Balandin. People transferred 300-500 rubles to the account of her daughter Anna Mikhalchevskaya. It was believed that the money would go to a lawyer in Tunisia. He allegedly already demanded an advance payment of 3.5 thousand dollars. As a result, they collected 600 thousand, which the St. Petersburg activist Veniamin Dostoevsky transferred to her family in the Kuban. And whether this money was spent on a lawyer or somewhere else - that was no longer of interest to anyone, because the story was overgrown with more and more new details.

The image of Balandina was depicted as pathetic: a middle-aged, lonely woman, given up to be torn apart by African savages.

She did not call Nastenka anything other than “my sweetheart”, - said colleagues Balandina. Indeed, after all, Natalya took her daughter to dances, recorded on castings for TV series, dressed up like a doll. So it seemed that the child did not like a soul.

Balandina is a teacher by education. Originally from the village of Zassovskaya Krasnodar Territory... Previously, she worked at school as a teacher of the Russian language and literature. She rose to the head teacher. Some kind, but a rural intelligentsia. She had a husband, daughter and son. And after 11 years of marriage, they divorced. Soon Natalia met a new man - Sergei Balandin, gave birth to Nastya from him, and then left school altogether and they went to conquer St. Petersburg. True, they say that Balandin was "gone" and there were good reasons for that. However, this is a completely different story.

In Kolpino, on the outskirts of St. Petersburg, she opened her beauty salon in mall... There was also a children's hairdressing salon "Fairy Tale". But life did not work out with Balandin either. So Natalya was left alone with a little girl.

She coped poorly herself. There were health problems, went to the operation. The business also did not bring much profit. A friend with whom they worked together in the salon, she borrowed 80 thousand. Moreover, the woman took out a loan for her at insane interest. Balandina paid it every other time. He will put in at the beginning of the month five thousand, and by the end of 12 he will take it off.

On top of that, Balandina's mother died in Zassovskaya. She was worried. Friends say that she threatened to lay hands on herself and take Nastya with her to the next world. And then she suddenly flew to Tunisia.

Take it to yourself

Balandina spent a month under arrest. All the magic power of the Internet. Someone started a rumor about the death penalty for an orphaned mother in Tunisia. There was a resonance in the foreign media with the submission that Tunisia "shields its murderers and throws everything on the poor mother." And it worked. What is perceived in Russia as nothing more than unhealthy social media activity was mistaken in Tunisia for public opinion.

Is she good and we are bad? So deal with it yourself, - judged in the Tunisian police and released Balandina to his homeland. Although, according to police sources, they initially had a picture of the crime and Balandina was not just kept in prison for nothing.

Nevertheless, on June 16, the authorities of the good Tunisian Republic dropped the charges against it. On June 3, a criminal case was opened in St. Petersburg under the article "Murder of a minor." It was easier for Tunisia to get rid of the high-profile case, which had already tarnished its reputation sunny resort... Crimes are rarely committed there, and such crimes directed against children are completely nonsense.

They turned a tragedy into a show, - Tatyana Yakhiya sighs sadly.

A woman with Russian roots, now lives in Tunisia, takes tourists to the Sahara. When she heard the news about a Russian girl strangled in a hotel, she rushed to the consulate. I was looking for a lawyer for Balandina. But over time, she just dropped her hands.

I thought my mother could not do that. Therefore, I raised our Russians here. They wanted to help with clothes and food. A lawyer was almost hired. Everything collapsed at one point when I talked to a woman who was there from the first to the last minute. And then, when I watched this story, I got the impression that they make money on this. After all, her dad has a chain of restaurants in Sochi and a hotel, but for some reason he could not help his daughter.

Valentin Artemiev appeared in this whole story as if out of nowhere. He did not live with Balandina; he was raised by her stepfather. But for some reason he still went to Tunisia to pick up the body of his granddaughter. Only the trip turned out to be strange. Arriving at the Borj Sedria resort hotel, the first thing my grandfather did was book ... a tour. And then I was late even for this bus. All due to the fact that he spent the whole night in the bar. He washed down the grief, as he later explained to the guides.

"You cannot understand me"

It is difficult to understand the logic of this family. For example, Natalia's ex-husband Sergei, when he flew to St. Petersburg, promised to avenge his ex for Nastenka.

She ditched my daughter with her show-off, - the father gritted his teeth. - I would have killed her myself if she was here!

And now it turns out that Sergei and Natalya live together. Balandina works with children as a nanny, or in orphanage... The business woman no longer poses as herself.

He broke her ribs, beat her so badly, but then forgave anyway, '' says Natalya, a former friend of Balandina. This is the one from whom she borrowed 80 thousand. Nobody returned the money to her, the beauty salon in Kolpino was closed.

The last time I spoke to her was about a year ago, - says Natalya. - She called me from the Kuban number. I still did not understand what she wanted, it seems to me that she was not sober. I asked her: “Why did you leave? Without telling anyone, she took the child and dumped ”? She told me: “Don't you dare to judge me”. That's our whole conversation.

You will not understand my grief, - Balandina said the same on a talk show, where she sat in mourning and rubbed tears over her swollen face.

According to her, on May 13, she and her daughter were supposed to fly to Russia. Together they decided to take a final swim. The girl, having plunged, told her mother that the sea was too cold and that she would go to bask in the bathroom in the hotel room. Balandina let her daughter go, and she herself remained on the beach for another half hour. When the mother returned to the room, she found her dead daughter in the bathroom. She tried to lift her, but she did not succeed, then Balandina left the child in the bathroom, and she went back to the sea, as she declares, to drown herself. However, says Balandina, there were too many people at sea. The police detained her when she allegedly was looking for a deserted place.

Deadlock situation

Nastya was buried in the Kuban. Balandina was detained there on June 26. Accompanied by investigators, she was taken to St. Petersburg. And only interrogated.

They wanted to close it in the isolation ward, but the bet did not work. Now she is on her own recognizance, which the court renews her every ten days.

And without Tunisia's documents, the matter is at an impasse. Our detectives could not investigate in a foreign republic, they only went to the Kuban, carried out an examination of the murdered one again, talked with the strange relatives of Balandina. And that's all.

Due to international relations, the investigation will be seriously delayed, ”Aleksey Panzhev, the investigator for especially important cases, warned back in August last year. - The procedure was coordinated with Moscow. Within a week, a translation was made, then they decided through the Prosecutor General's Office. Then it was agreed with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. We are waiting for Tunisia to give some answer on this matter. Either they will help us and provide materials, or they will allow us to come there. Only after they agree on this, it will be possible to study.

This conversation with the investigator was repeated with us every month. A year later, things are still there.

Our people blame Tunisia's sluggishness for everything, and they blame the Russian side for their rabidness.

She would have been with us already, ”says a source at the consulate. - For a month the room in that hotel was kept closed, we thought that your detectives would come. And now you won't find anything. After all, ours did not want to hang it on themselves, they were afraid of a scandal. The country is tourist. I even know that some testimony was “rekhtanuli”, only to send her to Russia. But the fact that the girl was strangled and put into a bathroom with water is for sure, ours had it in the examination report. And Nastya had dark hair in her fist, and there was skin and bruises under her nails. The body was found twisted in a fetal position.

Will it be possible to use it now? Great question.

In fact, the investigators only have an expert opinion on the violent nature of the death. The rest is emotions, you can't get them to the point. Although, it seems, and there was a motive. Almost before leaving, Natalya Balandina insured her daughter's life for thirty thousand euros. She had debts on loans in 7-8 banks. Therefore, the payment of insurance would not be superfluous for her.

And she did not stand on ceremony with the girl in Tunisia.

Nastya was afraid of her. She drank so that there was not only delirium tremens, the devil himself could be there. Every day from morning to evening in the trash, - says one of the guests of the hotel Pavel Kristya. - The child was alone all the time. She walked with us, my mother only came and took away. Balandina constantly wore glasses. Before the flight, she went to the beach, she could not stand at all. And the child swam in the sea alone.

For a week she was with some man, Nastya called him uncle. Then he disappeared somewhere and Balandina was left only with her daughter.

The same The animator gave testimony hotel girl named Sirin.

The screams in their room were heard already on the first night after they arrived at the hotel, the girl testified. - There was a quarrel between a woman, a daughter and some man. The next day, two German women who lived in the next room complained about the noise. After that, they heard the screams and crying of a child every day.

Even the sellers of the souvenir shop talk about the unrestrained drunkenness of Balandina. She even pawned earrings for the hotelier, so there was not enough for a drink.

Instead of an afterword

You can't talk to Balandina now. She went into a deep defense. Her husband and eldest daughter followed her there.

With the permission of the investigator, she will go to the Kuban. A year has passed, now you can put a monument on Nastya's grave.

She is deeply depressed, - says lawyer Mikhail Miretsky for his client. - We are also waiting for documents so that she can be transferred from the accused to the victim. Ten to fifteen examinations were carried out here, and they are all in our favor. These are both linguistic and psychiatric. She even passed a polygraph. All of them relate to Balandina's attitude to this incident. If there were grounds after these examinations to believe that she was involved, she would have already been the accused, believe me.

It is quite possible that Balandina is not lying about the fact that she does not remember. But this does not mean that there was nothing.

We got through to the consular department in Tunisia. Here Balandina is remembered without additional requests.

We have this issue under control, - says the head of the consular department Rashid Atayev. - We received inquiries from the Investigative Committee and the Prosecutor General's Office. We sent this to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and from there, respectively, to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. But, according to the Foreign Ministry, there was no reaction from there.

And it is unlikely that there will be an answer in the future. Obviously, after an information attack by “these Russians”, they decided to simply bury the case together with little Nastenka. That was the calculation.

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Alexandra Yaurova, clinical psychologist:

Murder is rather a state of physiological passion. But if this happens, the person usually does not hide any evidence, does not plan anything. These are impulsive actions. And then the person himself is terrified of what he has done. This is established by forensic psychiatrists.

Consciousness disorders also occur against the background of severe alcohol intoxication. And, it is possible that at the time of the commission of the crime her consciousness was strongly clouded, then she really does not know anything. But, on the other hand, if she passes the polygraph positively, this is in her favor. It is difficult for an ordinary person to deceive this apparatus.

But if she really does not remember this, then she will think that she did not do it. This is the work of a psychiatrist. But all this does not pass without a trace. If this happened, then the person most likely had such amnesty moments before.

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Natalya Balandina is hiding from strangers in the Kuban village

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From the very beginning, the story of Natalia Balandina, whose daughter was found murdered in Tunisia, was full of mysteries. A strangled child in a hotel room with a lock of maternal hair clutched in a fist, a mother who, for some reason, sunbathed on the beach, the arrest of a woman and a month in a local prison, then completely removed! - charges against her, unexpected release.

Now the killer is still not found, a criminal case has been opened over the death of the child. Natalia herself came to the Kuban, where 8-year-old Nastya is buried in the small village of Zassovskaya. The return coincided with the commemoration - 40 days have passed since the girl's death.

At home, a woman in the circle of relatives. But before she had time to return to Russia, another misfortune fell on her. At the Moscow airport, Natalya fell unsuccessfully and broke her arm. Now the father, eldest daughter and son, relatives protect her in every possible way, do not allow journalists to approach her (“Mom is stressed, she cries all the time and cannot speak”). Long efforts cost the correspondents of "Komsomolskaya Pravda" to get a telephone conversation with Balandina.

All charges were dropped from me. The killer will be punished one way or another, but no one will return the child to me, ”she said in a calm voice and agreed to a meeting.

However, two hours later, Balandina's father called us and canceled the meeting, citing his daughter's pressure that had sharply increased. But it was too late, the car was already heading for the Zassovskaya village of the Labinsky district of the Kuban ...

I don't even know what exactly I expected to see in Balandina's house. A grief-stricken woman, an ambulance under the windows, women in black headscarves ... Anything, well, not singing songs to them with a guitar. It turned out yes.

... In the courtyard, at the set table, there were seven or eight people. Everything is like in ordinary family gatherings: a glass of vodka on the table and "the bending of a thin guitar ...". Seeing us, pretty drunk relatives poured out into the street in a crowd. Balandina herself was going to leave, but she was immediately sent into the house, the door was locked.

Mom will not talk to you, - Balandina's eldest daughter Anna told me.

Is there really something to hide?

She has nothing to hide, and we absolutely do not care what others think of her. Those who believe - and so believe, and the rest will not prove anything. The investigation will sort it out, - with these words Anna closed the gate.

But how can this be? If you have nothing to hide, always just tell the truth. Moreover, there are thousands of people who sympathized, who collected money for her lawyer, who, by the way, was never needed. Do they really have no right to hear at least some adequate explanation of what happened?

Don't you understand, she will not talk to anyone, because she drinks, - the father of the murdered Nastenka, Sergei Balandin, grins. He is also from Zassovskaya, although last years lives in St. Petersburg, and here he brought his daughter's coffin and decided to stay until the forties. - She does not communicate with anyone, neither with friends, nor with neighbors, even I did not bother to explain anything. We were sitting at the same table at the commemoration, I took her hand: "Do you want to tell me anything?" Am I not entitled to the truth? I am the father of the child she killed. Yes, you heard right. I am sure that it was she who killed Nastenka. Open your eyes, stop protecting her! Everything points to her. When I read that her friends were talking about her (her acquaintances from St. Petersburg told KP correspondents that Balandina had spoken about sumicide more than once), I decided not to be silent. She told me too that she did not see the meaning of life. Moreover, it was a month before the trip to Tunisia. Her mother died. I met Natasha at the airport, then she stunned me. He tried to calm her down, saying that we should still raise Nastenka. And she was so calm: "She also has no need, I'll take her with me!" And before that, she often said, they say, I will throw myself out of the window with my daughter. It turns out that she killed her daughter, but did not raise her hand to herself?

Or maybe there was a reason to commit suicide? Colleagues say - Balandina is in debt as in silk, banks are calling, demanding payments. Yes, and Sergei himself was cut off the phone by the creditors of his ex-wife, the conclusion suggests itself. And her plans are strange: she is going to rent another apartment in St. Petersburg and find new job... As if there was no old one, where colleagues are waiting for her, on whom she "hung" her debts.

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The village, located on the border of the Labinsky and Mostovsky districts, is agitated to the limit. By the way, this is not such a backwater here. By Kuban standards, the village is rather big: the population is about 2.5 thousand. That is, this is not the case when there is one street, three courtyards and all relatives in the village. But after the recent events, everyone here knows Natalia Balandina. Locals endlessly retell this story, complain that there is little information about what happened, and therefore add details from themselves - The case was closed for lack of corpus delicti, my daughter is not guilty! - said the woman's father Valentin Artemiev. - She flew in from Tunisia and is now at home next to me in St. Petersburg. A week ago, he flew to Tunisia, was going to hire a lawyer there and, if possible, meet with his daughter. It turned out more - Natasha was released from the prison in the city of Sousse together with her father. Now she is under terrible stress, she does not want and cannot communicate with anyone except relatives, close women say. And they add: in a foreign country, none of the representatives of our consulate did not help her. And the accusation fell apart due to the lack of any evidence (read below)

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The case was closed for lack of corpus delicti, my daughter is not guilty! - said the woman's father Valentin Artemiev. - She flew in from Tunisia and is now at home next to me in St. Petersburg. A week ago, he flew to Tunisia, was going to hire a lawyer there and, if possible, meet with his daughter. It turned out more - Natasha was released from the prison in the city of Sousse together with her father. Now she is under terrible stress, she does not want and cannot communicate with anyone except relatives, close women say. And they add: in a foreign country, none of the representatives of our consulate did not help her. And the accusation fell apart due to the lack of any evidence. Tunisian hotel animator: "Nastya was terribly afraid of her mother" The guests say that the Russian tourist leaned on alcohol and wore glasses all the time, hiding her puffy eyes. It is obvious that Nastya was afraid of her mother. According to Sirin, the girl hid behind her back when she saw Natalia. Believe it or not? Indirectly, all this is confirmed by the case that Balandina's colleagues from St. Petersburg have already told us about. Like, shortly before the tragedy, the girl began to drown in the hotel pool, and Natalya did not even move. The animator saved him, and Balandina reprimanded him for it (read further)

The case was closed for lack of corpus delicti, my daughter is not guilty! - said the woman's father Valentin Artemiev. - She flew in from Tunisia and is now at home next to me in St. Petersburg.

A week ago, he flew to Tunisia, was going to hire a lawyer there and, if possible, meet with his daughter. It turned out more - Natasha was released from the prison in the city of Sousse together with her father. Now she is under terrible stress, she does not want and cannot communicate with anyone except relatives, close women say. And they add: in a foreign country, none of the representatives of our consulate did not help her. And the accusation fell apart due to the lack of any evidence.

Tunisian hotel animator: "Nastya was terribly afraid of her mother"

The guests say that the Russian tourist leaned on alcohol and wore glasses all the time, hiding her puffy eyes. It is obvious that Nastya was afraid of her mother. According to Sirin, the girl hid behind her back when she saw Natalia.

Believe it or not? Indirectly, all this is confirmed by the case that Balandina's colleagues from St. Petersburg have already told us about. Like, shortly before the tragedy, the girl began to drown in the hotel pool, and Natalya did not even move. The animator saved him, and Balandina reprimanded him for it

On May 13, 2014, a terrible event took place in one of the hot resorts in Tunisia. The body of eight-year-old Nastya was found in one of the rooms of the Tapsus hotel. Further events were so strange that the first suspect was the mother of the child - Natalya Balandina. Today we will recall all the details of this high-profile case.

Incident

On this hot June day, mother and daughter had to leave the resort and go home. But at the appointed hour they were not among the tourists, who were loading things onto the bus. I had to go to my room to be reminded of my departure. There, Nastya's lifeless body was found in a bathtub half-filled with water. The hotel employees called the police, and the search for Natalya Balandina began.

There is another version - the girl was discovered by the maid, who had to clean the room after the guests. Be that as it may, the search for the woman ended on the beach, where she calmly sunbathed. When asked by the police: "Do you know that your daughter is dead?" she answered indistinctly: “Yes. No. Do not know". The woman was absolutely calm and did not show any anxiety.

Indications

Natalia was arrested, and she began to give confused testimony. At first, the story looked like they went to the beach with their daughter. The girl refused to swim in the cold sea and went to her room alone to take a hot bath. Mother did not accompany her, and when she returned to the room, she saw that Nastya was lying under water with no signs of life. Unable to get the child out of the bath, Natalya went to drown herself in the sea. She was looking for a secluded place for a long time, got tired and sat down on a chaise longue, where she was detained.

Another version says that she left her daughter in the room and went to the beach to sunbathe before leaving. Natalya never returned to the hotel and learned about her daughter's death only from the police. This option sounds more convincing, because it is almost impossible to believe in the first one. How could not a fragile woman of forty-three not be able to pull an eight-year-old girl out of the bathtub?

Even if she realized that her daughter was dead, then it was necessary to call medical assistance and the police. She took her bag, documents and went to look for a place to take her own life. However, Natalya herself insisted on the first option. At the same time, she did not forget to clarify that it was the hotel employees who were to blame for the death of her daughter. They seemed strange to her from the first day of rest.

Consequence

The woman spent a month in a pre-trial detention center in Tunisia. During this time, it was possible to interview witnesses and conduct all the examinations. The evidence was not in favor of the mother - particles of Natalya's skin were found under the girl's nails, and witnesses claimed that they had heard the child's screams from the room more than once. There were those who even saw that Nastya's mother beat her in front of people.

The most interesting thing was told by pathologists - the girl did not drown and was not even drowned. She was strangled to death before placing the baby in the bath. No water was found in his lungs, and there were clear fingerprints on his throat. No actions of a sexual nature were carried out with a dead or alive girl either.

The reaction of the Russians

The society hotly debated the story the very next day. Numerous publications in the media and television programs told about the tragic fate of Natalia Balandina. She worked in a beauty salon and adored all three of her children. The youngest Nastya was especially fond of: she sewed her dresses and did her hair. Shortly before the incident, Natalya's mother died, and this was a heavy blow for her. Therefore, she went to rest and unwind in Tunisia.

People were in a hurry to help the inconsolable mother. The whole world collected money for a lawyer and tried to achieve her return to her homeland. Soon the situation changed, and the mercy of society was replaced by anger. Unpleasant details surfaced. It turns out that the money raised was spent by Nastya's father on a ticket to Tunisia. Where he was in no hurry to pick up his daughter's body, but went on an excursion. Natalya herself was not an angel either - her colleague paid off a huge loan for a woman, because she had the imprudence to become a surety. She presented all receipts for payment to the investigation.

People began to demand from the family that all the money was returned to them. Nobody wanted to help such citizens. At this time, Natasha's father spoke on federal channels with an appeal for help and told the horrors about the prisons of Tunisia. Allegedly, his daughter is not even fed there and may be tortured so that she confesses to the murder. After all, if it turns out that the killer lived in a hotel, then the reputation of the resort will suffer greatly.

Sentence

Natalia Balandina was released to Russia at the end of June. The woman reported that the conditions in detention were normal. Investigators from St. Petersburg took up the case. They did not manage to get an arrest - an experienced lawyer was able to bring many arguments in favor of the client. Despite the fact that the investigation was sure that she had killed her daughter, no one could prove it. Natalya Balandina escaped punishment, all charges were dropped from her. A criminal case under Part 2 of Art. 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation was initiated and has not yet been closed. The mother of the deceased is no longer a figurant, the investigation is looking for other likely suspects. The woman herself went to Krasnodar and lives with relatives.