Overview

• Carabinieri identified a 25-year-old local man, questioned him, and placed him under a compulsory mental-health assessment in Chioggia’s psychiatric ward.
• No arrest order has been issued as investigators continue collecting evidence and report the suspect did not cooperate during questioning.
• The victim, a Polish-born resident of Germany visiting with family, was transferred from intensive care to a ward and is in stable condition.
• Witness accounts and nearby cameras point to an assailant wearing a full-face helmet who inflicted more than ten knife wounds without robbery or molestation.
• Authorities now say the attacker fled on foot rather than by motorcycle as first reported, residents intervened to help, and the missing dog Lucky has been found.