Anastazja's family attorney: the suspect has been charged with murder

The man detained in connection with the death of the 27-year-old Anastazja faced a Greek court on Wednesday. The attorney of the murdered woman's family - Jarosław Kowalewski - told tvn24, quoting information he had received from the family's second plenipotentiary, that the 32-year-old suspect was also charged with murder. The suspected 32-year-old Bangladeshi man has already been charged with abduction and rape of the Polish woman. According to the lawyer, Wednesday's questioning took about 4 hours.

The suspect has been temporarily arrested.

According to Greek media, including Kathimerini and BBC Greece, the man is said to have admitted to the charge of abduction of the woman. He is also said to have changed his original statement and denied he had had a sexual intercourse with the Polish woman against her will.

Kowalewski stressed already on Tuesday that another important question was potential involvement of accomplices. "This is not completely clear. I hope it will soon be revealed whether it was a group rape," he said.

Anastazja went missing on Monday, June 12, on the Greek island of Kos where she had worked in a hotel. Greek media informed on Sunday, June 18, the body of the woman was found.

The body was discovered around 7 p.m. local time, approx. one kilometer from the suspect's home and 500 meters from the place where the woman's phone had been found on Saturday.

The autopsy, carried out on Monday evening on Rhodes, confirmed Anastazja had been strangled. The doctors added, however, the body was in advanced stage of decomposition, making it impossible to determine exactly what happened to the woman on the last moments of her life. Another section was carried out on Tuesday.

Jarosław Kowalewski represents Anastazja's mother in Poland, but the family also has a plenipotentiary in Greece. "The proceedings in the case of Anastazja's murder will be carried out on two separate tracks. The Polish side may request to take over the case, but I assume this might not happen dut to various reasons. The main one being that it is in the Greek state's interest to close this case as soon as possible, prosecute the perpetrators and hand down punishment, which will certainly happen there," he said on Tuesday.

The District Prosecutor's Office in Wrocław has launched an investigation into the case. Poland's Prosecutor General and Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro confirmed on Wednesday that Polish prosecutors took part that day in the questioning of the suspect.

A few days ago, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said the government would ask Greece to hand the suspect over to Poland.