It was a Wednesday morning in Rome when Italian police received an Interpol red notice from Victorian police. Within two days, Perry Kouroumblis would be under arrest for the killings of two Australian women almost five decades ago.
Perry Kouroumblis, 65, was detained at an airport in Rome on an Interpol Red Notice over the deaths of Suzanne Armstrong and Susan Bartlett.
Speaking exclusively with the ABC, the head of the police unit at Rome's Fiumicino Airport, Chief Commissioner Fernando Speziali, said when the alert was received from Australian police, Italian Interpol had to monitor flights coming in from Greece. Commissioner Speziali said once Mr Kouroumblis came off the flight, he was stopped in the Schengen arrivals area of the airport and led into police offices where they obtained his fingerprints."After having verified that he was the wanted subject, we arrested and took him to Regina Coeli Prison in Rome," he said.Now that Mr Kouroumblis has agreed to his extradition, the Italian Justice Minister has 45 days to proceed with it.
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