Overview
- Prosecutors placed the 59-year-old under detention on suspicion of attempted murder after an overnight interrogation in which he admitted selecting a random victim.
- Investigators say CCTV images released to the public led his twin sister to identify him, enabling Carabinieri to track him to a budget hotel near Milan’s Centrale station using phone positioning and to seize matching clothing.
- The victim, 43-year-old Finlombarda manager Anna Laura Valsecchi, underwent more than two hours of surgery for lung and spleen injuries at Niguarda; she remains in intensive care with a reserved prognosis but is no longer in immediate danger.
- Lanni, a recidivist previously convicted for two 2015 stabbings and found partially incapacitated by a psychiatric evaluation, had recently been removed from a rehab facility in the Varese area.
- Prosecutors are verifying his account and examining why he was expelled, whether he attempted other assaults, and additional evidence including a jacket recovered in viale Famagosta, with no link found between him and the victim.