Terror risks 'more pronounced' in Italy

(ANSA) - Rome, February 25 - Italian Police Chief Alessandro Pansa said Wednesday that Italy is facing "a more pronounced" risk of terrorist attacks than previously.
    He told a Lower House hearing that Italy "is more exposed than in the past" to international terrorism because "theatres of war are much closer to us" and terror links and connections are more complex.
    Concerns have been raised about Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists moving into civil war-torn Libya, which is separated from Italy by only a narrow strip of Mediterranean Sea.
    Contributing to the heightened risk is the fact that "a good part" of the more than 3,000 European foreign fighters who went to war in Syria and Iraq have returned to Europe, said Pansa.
    That includes at Italians and people from Italy with dual citizenship.
    The return of foreign fighters to their home countries has been a rising security concern for many Western nations.