More terror attacks coming: French PM

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls says there will be more terrorist attacks following this week's murder of a policeman and his wife by a man who pledged allegiance to Daesh.

Valls said Wednesday the intelligence and police services have foiled 15 attacks since 2013 and are waging a non-stop battle to track down would-be terrorists. 

"We need to tighten the net and give police and intelligence services all the means they need, but we will witness further attacks," he said on France Inter radio. 

Larossi Abballa, a 25-year-old Frenchman, stabbed a police commander to death outside his home and killed his partner, who also worked for the police.

He took the couple's three-year-old son hostage in Monday night's attack. The boy was found unharmed but in a state of shock after police commandos stormed the house and killed the attacker.

Media reports on Wednesday said a fresh wave of Takfiri militants has left Syria and could commit attacks imminently in France and Belgium.

"Fighters travelling without passports left Syria about a week and a half ago in order to reach Europe by boat via Turkey and Greece," a memo sent to police and security services across Belgium said.

According to the memo, the militants were travelling armed and planning to carry out attacks in groups of two and "their action is imminent," the La Derniere Heure newspaper reported.

European governments were repeatedly warned of a Takfiri backlash when they began supporting militants in their bid to topple the Syrian government. 

Those threats have come to pass as attackers linked to Daesh and other Takfiri groups have targeted several countries across Europe. 

Belgium is still reeling from Daesh bombings at Brussels airport and on the city's metro on March 22 which killed 32 people and wounded hundreds more.

They came five months after Takfiri militants carried out gun and bombing attacks in Paris on November 13, killing 130 people and wounding hundreds more.

France, which is hosting the Euro 2016 football championships, is on maximum alert after the Monday killing. 

'Hit list'

A French official said on Tuesday Abballa was carrying a “hit list” of distinguished people and had told friends of his “thirst for blood.”

Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said police had found the list at the scene of the killings in Magnanville, naming security personnel as well as VIPs, including journalists and rappers, to be targeted.

Police have arrested three associates of the attacker. One of the detainees was sentenced alongside Abballa in 2013 for affiliation to a Takfiri network that sent recruits to Pakistan.

Before he was killed in a police raid, Abballa posted a live video of himself with the child, who was rescued by police, on Facebook.

In the video, he called on other potential extremists to “turn the Euro 2016 into a graveyard,” referring to the European soccer tournament currently being held in France.

The Magnanville killings took place barely 36 hours after a gunman claiming allegiance to the Takfiri Daesh group fatally shot 49 people at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida.

The Orlando shooter, identified as Omar Mateen, had reportedly traveled to Saudi Arabia twice — in March of 2011 and March of 2012.

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