More major attacks in Europe are a "certainty", French PM Manuel Valls told an audience at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday.
"We have entered - we all feel it - in a new era characterised by the lasting presence of 'hyper-terrorism'," said Valls, whose country was hit by two Islamist attacks last year. "We must be fully conscious of the threat, and react with a very great force and great lucidity. There will be attacks. large-scale attacks. It's a certainty. This hyper-terrorism is here to stay," he said.
Valls was speaking at the three-day security conference in the southern German city, speaking alongside Russian PM Dmitry Medvedev. "The force of the ideological fascination is formidable, and if we have changed era it is because this hyper-terrorism is in the heart of our societies.”