Antagonists, the map of sabotage on the railway network. Cases from Rome to Milan

In 2025, the 'bubble' bursts and the list of suspected sabotage grows longer: Agrigento, Bergamo, Caserta, Cosenza, Cuneo, Florence, Frosinone, Gorizia, Grosseto, Lecco, Lodi, Milan, Modena, Forlì-Cesena, Naples, Padua, Palermo, Pavia, Ragusa, Rieti, Rome, Sondrio, Viterbo, Trapani, Trieste, Venice, Vibo Valentia.

It is within this framework that the alarm is also rising at the top management of Ferrovie dello Stato: more tampering, more damage, more exposed vulnerabilities, with direct consequences on traffic.

A Frecciarossa train gets stuck due to a sudden power cut: the run comes to a halt, a cable breaks and the pantograph is damaged. The episode ends up in the sequence of 'anomalous events' reported by FS and then investigated by investigators as potentially non-random. In the background, the investigative reading is cautious but clear: work is being done to distinguish technical failure from possible tampering, in a context in which prosecutors are also assessing 'hostile' network scenarios. Cascade delays and rescheduling of circulation on one of the country's most sensitive nodes.

Another power failure affects an infrastructure connected to the AV machine: the interruption is restored, then it occurs again. It is the kind of dynamic that prompts investigators to cross-reference technical data with external elements (presence, access, video surveillance). Within that framework, the chronicles report checks on possible suspicious presences in the affected areas.

Antagonistic track (hypothesis): considered because a demonstration action 'against' the HS is a repertoire already seen in other contexts; here, however, it remains on the level of hypothesis. Operational criticality and risk of propagation of the disruption on several routes.

A fire on the tracks near San Filippo Neri station interrupts the FL3 Roma-Viterbo: fire brigade at work and traffic suspended to allow extinguishing and checks.

The event is treated as a technical and security emergency; in parallel, in a year already marked by alarms about possible tampering, investigators verify the nature of the fire. Again, the 'antagonist' hypothesis is only one of the leads.

A fire developed near the railway station causing the suspension of traffic between Firenze Castello and Prato, with cancellations and service limitations and the activation of replacement buses. The Fire Brigade intervened; Rfi personnel were also on site to check the infrastructure and safety conditions. Traffic was then reopened after the checks.

Hypotheses under verification: the origin of the fire is ascertained. Within the framework of attention on 'anomalous' episodes, the possibility of an intentional act and a hand that can be traced back to antagonist circles is also being assessed.

The Digos keeps their guard up and, with it, the level of suspicion rises: the hypothesis is that antagonist fringes are attempting to create continuous disorder, exploiting vulnerabilities and strategic points of the network to maximise the impact. The answer, now, is all in the checks: reconstruct any connections and armour infrastructures and accesses, before a sequence of 'anomalous events' becomes a script.