Mateusz Morawiecki announced the move via Twitter on Monday, Polish state news agency PAP reported.
The prime minister wrote: “I am in shock after the brutal murder of 27-year-old Anastazja. The perpetrator must face very severe consequences. That’s why we’ll ask Greece to hand over the suspect to stand trial before a Polish court and receive the highest possible punishment.”
Earlier on Monday, Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro announced that Poland had launched its own investigation into the murder of the Polish woman in Greece.
Ziobro said in a tweet that the probe would be handled by the Regional Prosecutor’s Office in the southwestern Polish city of Wrocław and that Polish prosecutors would immediately ask Greek authorities to share the evidence.
Polish woman murdered in Greece
The murder victim, identified as 27-year-old Pole Anastazja Rubińska, went missing on Monday, June 12, on the Greek island of Kos where she had been working at a five-star hotel, according to news outlets.
On Sunday, Greek media reported that the body of the missing Polish woman had been discovered.
It was found at approximately 7 p.m. local time around a kilometre away from the residence of a 32-year-old Bangladeshi man who had been previously apprehended by the police as the suspected murderer.
The body was concealed in a bag and covered with branches, news outlets reported.
According to Polish state broadcaster TVP, Anastazja was "likely gang-raped by a group of migrants" she had met hours earlier at a supermarket.
Meanwhile, Greek police on Monday confirmed the Polish woman had been strangled to death, adding that an autopsy would reveal what happened to her in the last minutes of her life, the interia.pl website reported.
Anastazja had been living in Greece since last month, with her boyfriend who is also Polish, the PAP news agency reported.
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Source: IAR, PAP, interia.pl, thenationalherald.com