Whoever stabbed Abigail Dresner at Rome’s Termini station on the evening of December 31st now has a name and a face: his name is Aleksander Mateusz Chomiak. Polacco, 24, Chomiak was identified by the police as the attacker of the 24-year-old Israeli girl, stabbed on New Year’s Eve at Termini station. The Polish boy hit Abigail Dresner with three stab wounds in rapid succession while she was in front of the automatic ticket machines: he is now wanted throughout Rome and also outside the city.
Who is Aleksander Mateusz Chomiak: the identikit
Aleksander Mateusz Chomiak, 24 years old, residing in Grudziadz, Poland. Brown, blue eyes, is six feet tall by seventy kilos. Police believe he attacked the 24-year-old Israeli girl at Termini station and ran away.
After the first video of little use to recognize him published after the stabbing, the boy was identified thanks to another video that shows his face more clearly. Now the police searches have started, in Rome and outside the city.
Aleksander Mateusz Chomiak wore a black cap on his head and dark clothes: also for this reason his identification through the video surveillance systems was complex, given that at the time he went into action almost all the shops were closed. Nobody saw anything. A racial hypothesis had also been hypothesized, given the Jewish symbols on the girl’s backpack, but at the moment the police are contesting the attempted murder without the aggravating circumstance of racial hatred. But what is the story of Aleksander Mateusz Chomiak?
Where is Aleksander Mateusz Chomiak from?
In a Facebook post dated December 14, 2022 and posted on the group Zaginieni/vermisst – a sort of Polish “Who saw him” – a boy is shown very similar to the one in the shot on the Polish authorities’ website. The young man is identified as Alexander, a resident of Grudziadz and missing.
He would have been in Italy at least since April and in this time he has never worked. As a homeless man, he spent his nights on trains, on stairways and in abandoned buildings. During the day, however, he was spotted outside McDonald’s and in stations, trying to regain free access to the Internet. The family last saw the boy in Poland on 23 October. Since then the mother has tried to persuade her son to let him go home, without success.
The young man was spotted not only in Rome, but in the previous months also in Venice, Livorno, Turin. Until December 31 in Rome, where he stabbed the Israeli girl with the red backpack on her shoulders.
How is the stabbed girl
Abigail Dresner, 24, after being stabbed was immediately rescued by 118 and transported to the Umberto Primo Polyclinic, where she was admitted to the emergency surgery department. One of her three stab wounds lacerated her liver, but her life is not in danger. Her conditions are stable and the prognosis remains confidential.
The prefect of Rome: “The attack seems to be the work of a madman”
“The act of aggression of December 31 seems to have been the work of a madman. In the light of the documents I have read, I think this is the case. Let us bear in mind that we have a volume of people circulating in Termini of 500 thousand a day. A real and own city and this therefore poses a problem of control”, said the prefect of Rome Bruno Frattasi regarding the stabbing of Abigail Dresner. “I had intuition that it was not a predatory act or a sexual assault. It was an assault that lasted seven seconds”, the vision of the prefect.
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