Overview
- Police detained 36-year-old Croatian national Marin Jelenik in Desenzano del Garda without documents and confirmed his identity through fingerprint comparison.
- CCTV from Bologna Centrale shows the suspect following Alessandro Ambrosio inside the station before the fatal stabbing in a staff-only passage near the Piazzale Ovest parking area.
- Investigators say the victim was off duty and still had his phone and money, which makes robbery an unlikely motive.
- After the killing, the suspect took a regional train toward Milan, was removed at Fiorenzuola for disorderly behavior, identified by Carabinieri, and released before search alerts were issued.
- The Bologna prosecutor’s office, with railway police, the mobile squad and forensic teams, continues to examine evidence as unions stage an eight-hour regional rail strike on Jan. 7 over worker safety.