Overview

• At his preliminary hearing on July 15, Kaufmann remained impassive and declined to answer questions posed by the judge
• He is held in the protected section of Rome’s Rebibbia prison after his extradition from Greece, where he exhibited psychotic episodes and damaged his cell at Larissa prison
• Prosecutors await a judge’s decision on the validity of the arrest executed in Skiathos on June 13
• Scientific police investigators isolated a male genetic profile on a plastic sheet near the victims that partially matches Kaufmann and overlaps with his daughter’s profile, pending further confirmation
• An autopsy on Anastasia Trofimova found no visible signs of violence and histological examinations are ongoing to determine the exact cause of death