Overview
- Carabinieri located the 27-year-old on December 4 hidden in a small storeroom at acquaintance Dragos Ioan Gheormescu’s home in Nardò, and doctors found her in good health.
- Investigators say surveillance footage showed the pair together on November 24 heading to his residence, which she did not leave until she was found.
- Dragos was questioned and remains under investigation initially for instigation to suicide, while earlier homicide and concealment-of-corpse hypotheses have been dropped and no restrictive measures have been imposed.
- Prosecutors in Lecce are weighing a case for procurato allarme and are examining possible false statements, with phone and forensic analyses ongoing and Tatiana expected to be interviewed.
- Dragos issued a public apology and described the stay as consensual; one outlet reports an unconfirmed hypothesis that Tatiana staged the disappearance to boost Instagram followers, and officers said she was found with two phones without SIM, a folding knife and a key.