Russian Woman in Vietnam Prison: The Death Penalty at the End of Summer. Death at the resort: a sea attacked Russian tourists in Turkey

Tourists from the Russian Federation love to relax on a "big foot", with the obligatory All Inclusive, sea, sun and all services for 5 points, and to be cheaper. It is because of this that Turkey was, is and will be one of the most popular and budget directions for vacation.

However, it is in Turkey that some problems constantly arise: the Coxsackie virus, earthquakes, mass poisoning, tour operators-deceivers and even hotels in which " buffet tables» cockroaches run around, and behind the reception desk the staff swears at the guests.

The high mortality of Russian tourists in Turkey is also an open and timely question. Timely because high season" is now in full swing, and millions of Russians are resting in hot resorts.

So, over the past month in Turkey there have been several deaths with vacationers. Some time ago, the Turkish province of Cappadocia collapsed balloon with tourists. As a result of the fall, one person died and 20 were injured. Also, recently the media reported that Russian tourist Andrei Ogorodnikov was found dead in Antalya. IN this moment all circumstances of death of the man are found out.

At the end of August, the website of the Zvezda TV channel reported that a 6-year-old child was killed in Turkey, who was hit by a driver on a zebra, and the death of a tourist who crashed after falling from a hotel balcony.

In total, according to approximate statistics, at least 10 Russians die in Turkey per month.

Why and why Russian tourists die in Turkish resorts, the director of the association of tour operators in the field explained to the website of the Zvezda TV channel outbound tourism Tourist Help, Alexander Osaulenko:

“A large number of deaths occur for two reasons. First, there are significantly more Russians going to Turkey than to other destinations. Secondly, there, according to the "all inclusive" system, each person literally allows himself to break away. People simply lose the edge, being not in their environment. We must remember that liters of free alcohol are psychologically corrupting, which is why there are many deaths,” says Osaulenko.

Indeed, due to the lack of a sense of the human "edge", situations on vacation often take a bad turn.

Sources at the Russian embassy in Turkey also told the website of the Zvezda TV channel about conflicts that occur on the territory of resorts due to the notorious lack of a sense of proportion.

“Yes, indeed, a lot of cases happen, different ones. Someone is fighting, someone is in a drunken conflict with the police, there are also deaths. We are constantly working with this,” the source said.

The website of the Zvezda TV channel contacted the chairman of the Russian Society of Antalya, Marina Sorokina, who also noted the problems of Russian tourists with alcohol.

“Regarding deaths due to alcohol ... yes, there are such cases, summer, heat, if consumed in unlimited quantities, then you can get a stroke. Neither the Germans nor the British have such problems. But there are pluses now, here the "traffic situation" is leveling off, the state allocates two guides for trips and more professional drivers for excursions, ”says Sorokina.

An independent expert on tourism and resorts, Tatyana Demeneva, expressed her opinion to the Zvezda TV channel website about why mortality is increasing every year in hot Turkish resorts.

“It all depends on the ratio of tourists. Not to say that Turkey is a bad resort, on the contrary, the value for money pleases. But it is important to understand that the more tourists, the more deaths. The situation is the same in Thailand and in other countries, where most of our tourists are,” the expert said.

At the moment, employees of the two main departments for monitoring various cases with tourists - Rostourism and Rospotrebnadzor are paying increased attention to Turkish resorts. The reason for this is the Coxsackie virus, from which 50 children have already fallen ill in Surgut, and a lot of complaints received by departments about this.

For hotel residents popular resort Hurghada in Egypt was attacked with a knife, two Ukrainian tourists were killed. This attack was reported Egyptian Interior Ministry on Facebook around 5pm on Friday, July 14th. Later, this information was refuted, saying that it was not the Ukrainians who died, but the Germans.

Four more tourists were injured. The motive of the attacker is unknown, he was detained and testifies.

Information about the nationalities of the dead and wounded is contradictory and changed throughout the day.

All the details of the attack in Hurghada:

Three versions of the reasons for the attack are considered - a terrorist attack, a domestic quarrel and a mental illness of the attacker.

According to the first version of the media, he is an ISIS member, speaks German and communicated with foreigners before the attack.

According to the second, his attack could have been the result of a domestic quarrel, in which two women allegedly participated - from Egypt and Ukraine. After her, the husband of the offended Egyptian woman attacked the offender and her friends with a knife.

The third version is that the attacker suffered from a mental illness and did not realize what he was doing.

On the morning of July 15, the Egyptian media wrote the name of the attacker on tourists in Hurghada - this is 28-year-old Abderrahman Shaaban Abderrahman Badawi. According to local media, the perpetrator professed the ideology of ISIS and may belong to them. During interrogation, he stated that he "lived according to Sharia law."

As of 21:20, it was confirmed that two of the wounded were Armenian citizens.

- Fresh data from the Egyptian authorities: the two dead tourists are not Ukrainians, as previously reported, but Germans. And two of the four victims are citizens of the Czech Republic.

According to eyewitnesses, the attacker is 25 years old and tall. After the attack, he called someone on mobile phone and asked to be picked up. After that, he entered the sea and swam, but the police on the boat prevented him from moving away from the coast, he returned to the beach, where he was detained by the hotel guards.

He chose foreigners as his target. "Get away from me, I don't need the Egyptians, I'm not looking for you," one of the vacationers quoted the attacker.

Ukrainian Ambassador to Egypt Gennadiy Latiy did not confirm the death of Ukrainians in Egypt. "According to our information, two people died. According to our information, they may be citizens of either Germany or Armenia," he said.

Also, according to him, a woman was wounded, Elena Mikhailenko, who was born in Ukraine, but is a citizen of the Russian Federation.

And the attack, the ambassador noted, was committed by three people, and in two hotels - Zahabia and Sunny Days El Palacio.

Photo of the hotel where the tragedy occurred:

Hotel Sunny Days El Palacio in Hurghada, where tourists were attacked (photo: Diaa Elhadidi on Facebook)

The newspaper Al-Watan writes that the attacker randomly stabbed tourists who were nearby.

According to the publication Ahl Masr, the perpetrator suffers from a mental illness.

Judging by the photo, the attack took place in four star hotel Sunny Days El Palacio.

Killer from Hurghada

Scary photos are already online:

Photos from the scene of the attack in Hurghada appeared on Twitter

Egyptian hotel attack (Daily Mirror)

As of the evening of July 14, it was reported that among the wounded were one Russian, one Pole and two Serbs. The Russian woman has several stab wounds, but her life is out of danger. According to the Consul General of the Russian Federation, this woman has Ukrainian and Russian citizenship.

The Egyptian Ministry of the Interior said the attacker had sailed to the hotel from a nearby public beach. According to the AP, he was arrested immediately after the attack.

The injured hikers were taken to a local hospital.

Literally on the eve of the tragedy, the recommendation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine to citizens and India was circulated in connection with security threats in these countries.

Also on July 14, a checkpoint was attacked in Cairo in the morning, killing five Egyptian policemen.

A citizen of Russia, a resident of Rostov-on-Don, is awaiting trial in Vietnam Maria Dapirka. We are already about the most difficult situation, in which there was a girl accused of transporting a large consignment of drugs. According to Vietnamese law, the girl faces the death penalty, which was assigned to last days August.

Drug courier or victim of a set-up?

Recall exactly three years ago, 28-year-old (at that time) Maria Dapirka was detained at the airport in the Vietnamese city of Ho Chi Minh City. In her bag, customs officers found 2.78 kg of cocaine. The girl herself claims that she is not guilty of transporting a large consignment of drugs, and her boyfriend, a young man originally from Nigeria, framed her. They met at one of the resorts in Thailand, where Dapirka worked as a guide for more than a year. The man introduced himself as a football player, a relationship began, and then he asked the girl to carry a bag, the contents of which, according to her, the Russian woman had no idea.

The laws in Vietnam are strict. For the transport of such a batch of drugs, the death penalty is unequivocally due. However, the relatives still have a glimmer of hope that Mary, at least, will not be executed. Three years have passed, during which the young Rostovite is in a Vietnamese prison.

On August 30, 2017, a court session in the city of Ho Chi Minh City was to be held, at which the Russian woman was awaiting a verdict. However, a little later, the Consul General Russian Federation Alexey Popov said that the case was sent for further investigation. The girl's Vietnamese lawyer wrote a statement about this. Firstly, the case file, as it turned out, does not contain exact data on the amount of cocaine that was transported in Maria's things, and secondly, there is no evidence that the girl was aware of the consignment of drugs transported in her things.

Maria Dapirka is considered a victim of the Nigerian drug mafia by relatives and outsiders who sympathize with her. It belonged to her Chib Eze- The girl's boyfriend. True, he seemed to her Nick. It is known that the Nigerian drug mafia has long specialized in "setups" involving girls. If you're lucky - the girls manage to transport dangerous goods, no - so the mafia immediately "winds up", and the unfortunate ladies are left to wait for the trial on charges of transporting drugs.

Brother of Maria Dapirka Vadim Dapirka says that this is not the first time that his sister's trial has been postponed. The verdict was expected back in March current year, but then the investigation of the case again dragged on. All this time, Maria is in the most terrible state and does not know what to expect. But even in such a situation, the girl, according to her brother, does not lose her composure and tries to benefit even from being in a cell - she practices yoga and needlework. A very serious disadvantage is that relatives and friends cannot call up and meet with Maria - only lawyers and representatives of the consulate can communicate with her.

Asia is the most dangerous place for drug dealers

It is known that in the countries of Eastern and South-East Asia there are very strict laws against drug traffickers. For a long time, drug addiction has been a terrible problem for the countries of the Asia-Pacific region. We can recall the famous Opium Wars in China in the 19th century, the "golden triangle" at the junction of the borders of Thailand, Laos and Myanmar, which for a long time was considered the main epicenter of heroin distribution. For a number of peoples of mountainous Indochina, the cultivation of opium poppy is a traditional occupation. Now even American intelligence agencies are participating in projects to "retrain" peasants from the national minorities of Myanmar and Thailand to grow other types of crops, for example, tea.

They deal very harshly with drug traffickers in the Philippines, whose president Rodrigo Duterte was repeatedly accused by human rights activists of organizing extrajudicial reprisals against drug dealers and even ordinary drug addicts. There are no extrajudicial killings in Vietnam, Thailand, China, Singapore, but the court sentences here are very harsh. So, at the end of 2009, a British citizen was executed in China Akmal Sheikh, who was accused of transporting 4 kilograms of heroin. The sheikh waited for his fate for two years and yet was executed by the introduction of poison. Neither the appeals of the British leadership, nor the requests of relatives and friends, nor the statements of the international community helped. For Chinese justice, the fight against the drug mafia is a matter of principle.

Will Russians be "specially favored" in Vietnam?

Vietnam also remains among the world leaders in terms of the number of death sentences handed down in the country. Between August 6, 2013 and June 30, 2016, 426 people were executed in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. The death penalty is applied for a very impressive list of crimes, from murder to economic crimes and even crimes against family and marriage. In total, Vietnamese legislation until recently provided for the death penalty for 29 types of crimes. The list of “mortal” crimes includes drug smuggling.

Transportation of cocaine or heroin is punishable in Vietnam by either a twenty-year prison term, or life imprisonment, or the death penalty. Moreover, the nature of the sentence is left to the discretion of the court. True, in 2015, changes were made to the Criminal Code of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, which affected a number of articles for which the death penalty was previously due. Among them are the possession and purchase of drugs. However, it is not yet clear how the situation with Maria Dapirka, who was detained even before the adoption of changes in the Criminal Code of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, will develop.

However, there is hope that Vietnam, which has always been characterized by good relations with Russia, will show indulgence towards the Russian citizen. For example, in neighboring China, Russians are also trying not to be sentenced to death. Russia also has a special relationship with Vietnam, especially since many Vietnamese perceive Russians differently than citizens of the United States and Western countries. Yes, and Maria is not a hardened criminal or drug dealer, but a naive young woman who fell for the bait of her lover - a swindler.

By the way, at the beginning of 2017, another young Russian, 26-year-old Alexander Savin, who was also accused of transporting a large consignment of cocaine, was sentenced to 18 years in prison. He also claimed that he was set up, but the Vietnamese court did not believe in this version. However, they did not begin to sentence the Russian to death - they limited themselves to 18 years in prison. Considering that the attitude towards women is more condescending, we can assume a shorter term for Maria Dapirka.

As the lawyer told the Free Press Vladimir Postanyuk, The Penal Code of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam provides for very severe penalties for drug trafficking and, in particular, drug smuggling. P. b h. 4 art. 194 of the Criminal Code of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam states that illegal possession, transportation (transportation), trade or purchase of heroin or cocaine weighing 100 grams or more is punishable by imprisonment for a term of 20 years, life imprisonment or the death penalty. In Vietnam, the execution of the death penalty was carried out by firing squad, and only since 2011, the execution was replaced by lethal injection.

"SP": - And what do the sanctions for crimes in the field of drug trafficking in Vietnam depend on?

— As a rule, sanctions mainly depend on the type of drug crime and on the mass of the narcotic substance itself. For example, for the cultivation of drugs, an average of 6 months is expected. up to 3 years in prison, with aggravating circumstances 3-7 years; for manufacturing - from 2 to 7 years, with aggravating circumstances from 7 to 15 years in prison. For the possession, sale, transportation and purchase of drugs in this country, the sanctions are the most severe: depending on the type of narcotic substance, as well as its weight, it is punishable by imprisonment for a period of 7-20 years, life imprisonment or capital punishment - the death penalty .

"SP": - That is, the girl has a chance to replace the death penalty with another type of punishment?

— As we can see, the sanction in this legal norm is alternative, which implies the choice of one type of punishment from several. Thus, specifically in our case, it is likely that the girl will escape the death penalty, but in any case she will be forced to serve a sentence of imprisonment - either twenty years or life imprisonment. The verdict of the court will largely depend on the clarification of the actual circumstances of the case and evidence of the fact that the girl acted without intent, and moreover, was completely unaware of what was happening.

"SP": - Is the detention of Maria Dapirka in Vietnam the only example of the arrest of Russians in the countries of Southeast Asia with large quantities of drugs? Or were there similar examples? How did the criminal cases against other Russians end?

— Unfortunately, there are many examples of bringing citizens of the Russian Federation to criminal responsibility for drug crimes in other countries. For example, in 2015 in Thailand, a Russian citizen Diana Batishcheva became a victim of Nigerian drug traffickers. However, in a Thai court, she managed to prove that she did not know about the drugs stored in her things and in 2016 she was released. In China, at least seven Russians were convicted in drug-related cases. It should be noted that this year, in Bali, a citizen of the Russian Federation Roman Kalashnikov managed to avoid the death penalty, but he still has to serve a sentence of imprisonment. As we can see, the practice of bringing to criminal liability for crimes in the field of use and smuggling of narcotic substances, in most countries, is not particularly positive and foreign citizen(including a citizen of the Russian Federation) is not protected in any way from possible imprisonment or even the death penalty. Therefore, you should always remember the price that you have to pay for committing such crimes and be extremely careful, especially when traveling.