 Therein he was critical of the EPA and rejected comparisons between Fiat Chrysler and Volkswagen.Marchionne last appeared in public on June 26, 2018 in Rome, when he presented a Jeep to the Carabinieri, Italy’s military police.FCA subsequently announced Marchionne had taken medical leave for shoulder surgery at the University Hospital of Zürich in Switzerland — adding on the day of surgery that he would not return due to post-surgical complications.