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Italian prosecutor: We warned UK officials about London terrorist Youssef Zaghba after 2016 airport incident

British authorities were warned about the third suspect identified in the London Bridge attack after a suspicious March 2016 incident at Bologna Airport, said the Italian chief prosecutor who investigated the eventual terrorist.

Giuseppe Amato told the Guardian he’d kept close tabs and overseen a counterterrorism official’s report sent to London on Youssef Zaghba — who with two fellow assailants was shot dead by police — after the Moroccan-Italian man tried to fly to Syria via Istanbul to join ISIS.

“I’m not blaming anybody,” Amato said. “I don’t know the details of the investigation in London. I can just say the Italians did everything they could. We monitored him while he was here and our officers had alerted the British authorities.”