The killing of the Tunisian terrorist Anis Amri in Sesto San Giovanni December 23, 2016 and Anis Ahmed Anachi, mind and knife attack in Marseilles on October 1st.

Anis Amri, to guide the truck that killed 12 people at the Christmas market in Berlin, last year, then identified and killed by police in Sesto San Giovanni.
Still, Youssef Zaghba, in the London Borough Market commandos last June.
Gradually, the names - Republic shall census now a dozen - ranging from Abdeslam Salah, one of the bombers of the Bataclan, to the mind of the Bardo Museum in Tunis massacre, Noureddine Couchane.
There is even a half Macedonian, Karlito Brigande, and the Algerian Khaled Babouri that injured two policewomen with machetes year at Charleroi.
All the protagonists of bloody attacks around Europe, from Brussels to Paris to Nice and beyond, or accused of collaboration and planned.
All with a kind of bond with Italy: those who have lived there for a long time (in the case of Ahmed Anachi), who went there to point towards Syria (Salah Abdeslam), who came to us from migrant and there is then she stayed for a while ', and maybe going back (just like Anis Amri), who was pinched while pedaling calm at the center of Ferrara (Anis Hanachi, arrested a few days ago after escaping from France).
Overall, it seems that our country is much more than an obligatory transit from migration or travel to other latitudes but a real base that now has been spared from attacks similar to those seen around the Old Continent.
Of course, the presence of these individuals is not remotely comparable to the framework that characterizes other European countries, perhaps with massive phenomena of second generation affected by social disruption and identity, retrieved from the undergrowth of petty crime and easily radicalized inside or outside the prison.
If the UK potentially dangerous individuals are thousands for some 23 thousand source in France individuals designated with "S chip", ie those who put at risk the security of the state, would be more than 12 thousand.
Can not check them all, impossible to follow them step by step (an estimated twenty people are needed someone to heel 24 hours out of 24) and this is why, despite all the measures and states of emergency - the French one is still in place after the attacks of November 13, 2015 - events like those of Marseille continue to happen.
Because Italy has been spared?
Luck, skill, mix of social causes, demographic and migratory history?
Everything is related to 'efficiency of our intelligence agencies coordinated by the Department for safety information, the AISI led by General Marco Parente and Aise, captained by Alberto Manenti?
According to one theory, the effect would be primarily linked to poor radicalization in Italy, that is the biggest challenge - certainly not excluded, as is happening in some areas of Veneto or Brescia - which constitute authentic inspirational Salafist cells are able to support themselves each other in the preparation of the different actions.
Just look at the events of the last days of Anis Anachi, forced to take refuge in Ferrara with some Tunisian students, unaware that he was a jihadist.
According to this line, and scrolling even the news these months, it will be the image of a good country, perhaps to hide and pass, perhaps to groped to blend in, but not to organize and strike.
Because the safety net is too thin.
Moreover, according to a study of 'the American National Bureau of Economich Research based on the 2014-15 numbers, foreign fighters from Italy would be only 87 against 760 from Britain and 2,500 from France.
A few second generations to radicalize and lack of ghettos and suburbs to the Alps or to the Belgian - as well as, apart from a few large cities, an urban fabric made of small and medium-sized cities - would be among the reasons for the meager sum and the ability to better control the subjects put under surveillance.
If the police leaders seem to confirm that the radicalization of the catch subject in Italy at least for the most part did not happen in our country, and that everyone has a story of its own often coincides with the profile of the "lone wolf" often with mental health problems , other theses rather touching organized crime.
Contrary to Northern Europe, we would not in fact taken place significant partnerships between the mafia and terrorist entities or nuclei.
The consequence is that procuring weapons and explosives, with a certain wry effect right in the country of bombs and Mafia attacks, is more complicated.
A location recently relaunched by 'Economist, citing sources in law enforcement but instead changes the perspective of this vaccine of which would place our country: "In some ways it is the Mafia but not in the way everyone thinks."
The effects would in fact those of a higher training of our security apparatus, always struggling with the need to monitor even small groups and spread over the territory made even stronger by the red and black terrorism of the 70s and 80s.
A constant dialogue between secret agents, police and military.
As with proxies, which make extensive use of eavesdropping, allowed at trial, and very useful for this type of investigation.
On the one hand, in short, the tools developed against the Mafia, the other the trauma of the years of lead - married to a framework would certainly less complex than other European countries despite our role as a Mediterranean harbor - would have protected us from such dramatic events.
So, is it really so?
"It is a question that no one has the answer in his pocket - says Gianmarco Volpe, political analyst and expert on the Middle East and North Africa for the agency Nova - though you can try to reason around a series of interpretations.
The first is that radicalization is most often a result of a collective and not individual path .There are, of course, cases of lone wolves who fall into the trap obsessive online propaganda of the Islamic state, but in general we land when the militant jihadism it was used in a context of marginalization, when it comes into contact with items that have a history of armed militancy.
The prisons, in this sense, are often the first school of the bombers.
When, finally, under the influence of "savory" Jihad as the imam of Ripoll Abdel Baki Essati in the case of Barcelona attacks. "
Another consideration: a pre-existing network.
"Plan and conduct complex attacks such as those that have bloodied several European cities in recent months is very difficult without the support of a network to facilitate the acquisition of weapons, false documents and anything else - adds Volpe - in cities such as Brussels, Paris Marseille and similar networks were already active in the nineties, animated by an earlier generation of Islamists and smugglers.
Italy, for its geographical characteristics, is historically the territory of passage for the elements of the Jihad moving and moving between North Africa and Europe.
Inside, however, there are not (yet) the environmental conditions necessary for preparing and carrying out an attack.
The immigration phenomenon is relatively young and is, after all, well absorbed by urban centers (in our cities there are those ghetto neighborhoods that underpin the suburbs of Paris or Brussels).
This, of course, does not mean that Italy is free from the danger of attacks: the alert level to remain high because - it shows Las Vegas - the moves and motivations of those who shoots in the crowd are increasingly unpredictable.
And the intelligence services in some cases can do so much. "

From Wired