Low-cost, high-impact sabotage: targeting signaling systems stops trains without touching the rolling stock. According to Roberto Setola, director of the Master’s program in Homeland Security at the University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome, the method is a classic of the anarchist milieu, though with possible new linkages among radical fringes.
Italy has a solid security system; the challenge is to prevent coordination and more structured drifts. Sabotage runs along the tracks but travels, above all, through the cables. There is no need to hit a train: disabling the signaling is enough to halt traffic.
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Source: Decode39 News
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