British police say that they believe 22-year-old Youssef Zaghba, an Italian of Moroccan descent, was the third attacker in Saturday's violent rampage in London that killed seven people.
The Italian reports said Zaghba was intercepted at the Bologna airport previous year as he was about to board a plane for Turkey, apparently with the intention of joining Islamic State militants in Syria.
Zaghba's mother lives in the northern Italian city of Bologna and he had broken off relations with his Moroccan father, the source said, confirming a report on the website of newspaper Corriere della Sera.
Three assailants 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 a letter posted outside Tuesday, the Ummah Fitness Centre said staff would "help the police in any way we can".
Both the attackers are from Barking, east London.
Butt had appeared in a television documentary called "The Jihadis Next Door", as one of a group of men who unfurled an Islamic State flag in a park and who had connections with known radical preachers. Italy has expelled more than 40 people in the past two years who were suspected of extremist activities but for whom there was insufficient evidence to bring formal charges.
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Footage has emerged showing armed police shooting and killing the three London attackers as they run, knives raised, towards bystanders and officials.
The ISIS has claimed responsibility for the latest terror attacks, which rattled London.
Met Police said: 'All three were arrested on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of terrorism offences under section 41 of the Terrorism Act 2000.
Khuram Butt, of Barking, was known to British police and MI5 and was subject to an investigation in 2015.
A panel of speakers at the East London Mosque said they would work to combat extremists' "twisted narrative and their perversion" of religion.
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