Three attackers were shot dead by police on Saturday as they carried out a stabbing spree in London's Borough Market, a warren of bars and restaurants, after mowing down pedestrians as they drove a van across London Bridge.
In an interview with Italy's Radio 24, Mr Giuseppe Amato, the chief prosecutor in Bologna, said Zaghba, an Italian national, had been flagged in March a year ago at the Bologna airport en route to Turkey because he was travelling on a one-way ticket with only a backpack as luggage.
The Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera said in a report that the Italian intelligence services reported Youssef's movements to their British counterparts.
The other two attackers were identified as Khurum Butt, a 27-year-old whose extremist views had been reported to police, and 30-year-old Rachid Redouane, also known as Rachid Elkhdar, a Moroccan pastry chef.
So far, 11 people have been detained by the police in a series of raids following the attack in which seven people were killed and several others injured.
One of the victims of Saturday's terror attack has been confirmed as Australian Sara Zelenak.
One of the attackers, Butt, had appeared in a documentary "The Jihadis Next Door" and was known to investigators but police said he was not believed to be plotting an attack.
Police said on Monday they had released all 12 people arrested in the neighbourhood on Sunday without charge.
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The attack, and prior attacks in Manchester and near Parliament in London, have prompted Prime Minister Theresa May to call for tougher counter-terrorism laws even if it means changing human rights protections. Khuram Shazad Butt and Rachid Redouane were named on Monday.
The Islamic State claimed responsibility.
Reaction to the attack has dominated the final days of campaigning before Thursday's general election in Britain.
All three men have been taken into custody at a south London police station under the UK's Police and Criminal Evidence Act, the Met said.
Britain held a nationwide minute of silence Tuesday to honor the victims of Saturday's terror attack in London, as police announced the name of the third attacker killed by officers and made a new arrest linked to the investigation. The latest opinion poll, by Survation for ITV, had the Conservatives' lead over Labor narrowing to just one point from six points in the same poll a week earlier. But while the bridge reopened fully on Wednesday, the Borough Market and a small surrounding area remain closed, police said. Like Butt, he was from the Barking neighborhood. The number of police officers in England and Wales fell by nearly 20,000 between 2010 and 2016 - years when May, as home secretary, was in charge of policing.
Police killed all three attackers.
It was lowered once intelligence agencies were comfortable this wasn't the case.
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