'Possible terror risks for Italy from lone wolves'

Rome: On the risk of terror attacks in Italy, the critical issues continue to come from the possible activation of "lone wolves" and "self-starters", or self radicalised people, an official said.

Alessandro Pansa, General Director of the Italian Department of Information Security, said this at a press conference to present the 2016 document on security on Monday.

According to Italian law, the government each year transmits to the parliament a written report on the information security policy and the results achieved, Xinhua news agency reported.

The report includes a focus on Jihad in Europe, Pansa said.

The terror threat as evidenced not only by the attacks occurred last year, but also by the numerous foiled or failed plans as well as the growing number of reports about offensive projects.

"There are no signs, elements that suggest a connection between migration flows and the jihadist strategy to infiltrate and send groups of fighting terrorists to the European territories," said Pansa.

"The potential risk remains," he said.

Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni said more security did not mean less freedom.

"On the contrary, now to have more security is a condition for continuing to live free, to be able to afford an open society," said Gentiloni.

"Italian citizens can be certain, not of the lack of threats, because we do not ignore them, but of the high quality of work of those who learn about these threats, fight them and prevent them," he said.