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Several acts of terrorism have been planned and conducted in Italy. The country has also been used as a transit point for acts of terrorism that were planned or executed elsewhere.

Attacks and foiled attacks in Italy

 * Islamist plots to attack the Vatican
 * 1973 Rome airport attacks and hijacking
 * 1982 Great Synagogue of Rome attack
 * 1985 Rome and Vienna airport attacks

Role as a transit point
Italy has served terrorists as an available and relatively unguarded route into and out of member states of the European Union.

One of the attackers in the June 2017 London attack was an Italian citizen, born to an Italian mother and a Moroccan father. In 2016 Italian security officers preventing him from boarding a flight to Istanbul found ISIS propaganda in his pocket. The perpetrator of the 2016 Berlin attack had entered the European Union via Italy and had fled to Italy after the attack.