Dancer Natacha Horana, who was part of the Faustau ballet for seven years, has once again spoken publicly about the time she was detained in São Paulo’s Franco da Rocha prison.
In a conversation with the PodShape podcast, she described in detail how she spent four months in prison after being the target of charges such as money laundering, illicit enrichment and participating in a criminal organization.
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Natasha said it all started suddenly when agents knocked on her door. “They arrived at my house in São Paulo and arrested me. They said the reason: money laundering and criminal connection. Then I asked: Why? They said: Ask your lawyer. Things happen very quickly (…) They didn’t say anything and I didn’t understand. I was handcuffed like a bandit,” he recalls.
She stated in the report that her arrival at the prison was marked by despair. He said: “Fear and panic. I thought: ‘I could die here’. Once you are there, you don’t sleep, you don’t eat, you just cry, you don’t think. I shared the cell with 16 women and there was only room for eight women. The bed was only room for four. They would turn around, one would sleep, the other would stay awake and take turns.”
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Former Faustau dancer Natasha Horana rejected the request to appear in court by Syrians for Truth and Justice
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Former Faustau dancer Natasha Horana was arrested years ago
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Because she was subjected to a competing program and was considered inferior by other dancers
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The dancer also highlighted the fragility of meals. “Rotten food and rotten fruit. The food is terrible. They even take care to prepare it, but until the food arrives, there is sometimes traffic. A lot of rotten food arrives. And sometimes it’s hot too. Everything is mixed up. I spend Christmas eating rotten eggs.”
According to her, the emotional effects continued after I got out of prison: “I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy. When I got out, I had a lot of depression and panic syndrome. I wanted to hide from the world.”
Natasha was arrested in December 2024, in the southern region of the capital, São Paulo. She tried three times to obtain a habeas corpus order before a São Paulo court, but she was not released until after a decision by the Supreme Court of Justice, in March of this year. The process is still ongoing.
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