The Rome public prosecutor's office said Tuesday that it has informed five suspects that it has concluded an investigation into them over alleged complicity in the 1982 terrorist attack outside the city's Great Synagogue in which a two-year-old boy, Stefano Gaj Taché, was killed and 40 Jewish worshippers were injured.
Such notifications are usually served before prosecutors request indictments.
The prosecutors said the attack, in which terrorists threw hand grenades and opened fire with machine guns as people started to leave the synagogue, had similarities to another in Paris that year.
They said evidence showed that it was staged as part of the strategy of the infamous Abu Nidal Palestinian terrorist organization.
They said they had been able to "identify the members of the organization believed to have contributed to the attack on the synagogue in Rome, playing various roles and functions: decision-making and supervision, organization and logistics, and operational support".
