Italy: Militants might turn attention to domestic targets

Italy: Militants might turn attention to domestic targets


Islamist militants based in Italy unable to reach war zones might turn their attention to domestic targets, a parliamentary report on national security said Monday.


Anti-Western or anti-Italian sentiment may fuel attacks on "members of institutions or well-known figures seen as guilty of anti-Islam stances," the intelligence services told parliament in their annual report


The report cited a failed suicide bomb attack on a Carabinieri station in Milan in October as "the first jihadi attack on national territory".


Islamist cells which have only been engaged in logistical support or recruiting so far could make a "quality leap" and decide to attack, the report said.


"Isolated individuals or small cells could spring into action in a wholly autonomous way" like the 34-year-old Libyan who blew off his hand while trying to get a rudimentary bomb into the main Milan Carabinieri barracks on October 12, it said.



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Source: Life in Italy (English)

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