Overview

• Judges in Larissa approved Italy’s extradition request and Francis Kaufmann did not file an appeal, clearing the way for his transfer to Rome.
• Upon arrival he will be served with a pre-trial custody order and the investigating judge must schedule his interrogation within five days.
• Prosecutors will obtain Kaufmann’s DNA to verify paternity of his infant daughter Andromeda and bolster their case for murder charges.
• Histological tests from Anastasia Trofimova’s autopsy are under way to determine if suffocation was involved and searches in the Tiber for the victims’ belongings have yielded no findings.
• Investigators are probing possible misuse of €863,000 in public film financing secured under his alias for an unproduced project.