Double murder Villa Pamphili, life sentence requested for Kaufmann

The Rome prosecutor's office has requested life imprisonment with daytime isolation for three years for Francis Kaufmann, accused of the double murder of his partner Anastasia Trofimova and her daughter Andromeda, found lifeless on 7 June last year at Villa Pamphili in Rome. The prosecutors of Piazzale Clodio, in the investigation coordinated by the deputy prosecutor Giuseppe Cascini with the prosecutor Antonio Verdi, accuse the American citizen, who had fled to Greece after the events, of the double murder aggravated by the frivolous and abject motives, the impaired defence, the emotional relationship with the partner and the lineage in relation to the daughter as well as the concealment of the body.

The prosecutor's words during the indictment

"It was a Saturday and I was on duty, I have been a magistrate for 30 years but no prosecutor would want to receive the phone call I received that day - said prosecutor Verdi in the courtroom during the indictment before the judges of the first Court of Assizes - even if after years we have armor, but a little girl not even a year old dead is the most pessimistic of expectations. When I arrived on site for the inspection I saw that little naked body, it looked like an abandoned doll. Then a policeman approached me and asked me said that not far away there was the body of a woman. There were two naked bodies."

The prosecutor: Kaufmann is not incapable of understanding and wanting

As for the American's psychological condition, the prosecutor underlined: "Kaufmann is cold, lucid, manipulative, a pathological narcissist, but he is not incapable of understanding and wanting. He has a strong and distinct personality but he is an impostor". An impostor who also managed to "wrap" the officers who had stopped him while he was drunk in the street with his daughter and who "if they had done their job well perhaps the little girl would still be alive". After having reconstructed in the courtroom the last days of the couple with the child in Rome, the prosecutor explained that after killing Anastasia, Kaufmann realizes that his daughter is now just "a burden, a burden" and decides to "kill the child too and leave the body at Villa Pamphili". At the next hearing on November 5, the defense will speak and then the judges will go to chambers to decide the sentence.