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Suspect in Villa Pamphili Murders Held in Greece as Police Procedures Face Review

Greece’s courts have 60 days to decide on extraditing Kaufmann after his June 12 arrest in Skiathos

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Overview

  • Francis Kaufmann remains detained in Larissa on a Greek island awaiting a 60-day extradition ruling sought by Italian prosecutors
  • Forensic experts expect mid-July histology results to clarify whether Anastasia Trofimova was suffocated under the plastic sheeting covering her body
  • Italian authorities have opened an internal inquiry into whether earlier police encounters with Kaufmann complied with domestic violence protocols
  • CCTV footage and witness accounts place Kaufmann, Trofimova and their daughter in a June 3 altercation at a central Rome Starbucks hours before the mother’s presumed death
  • The FBI interviewed Kaufmann’s mother on June 17 and Italian prosecutors have issued legal requests to Russia and Malta for phone records and residency information