Germany and France have both warned that ISIS are ‘planning attacks’ during the Euro 2016 football tournament France faces the “greatest threat” from Islamist terrorist attacks the internal intelligence chief, Patrick Calvar, told French National Assembly deputies. The country is on high alert and have extended the State of Emergency to cover the Euro 2016 games RT reports: “Clearly, France is the most threatened and we know that Islamic State is planning new attacks,” Calvar told the deputies in a May 10 meeting, the minutes of which were released on Wednesday night. “Due to suffering setbacks on the battlefield [in Iraq and Syria] ISIS will want to create a diversion and avenge coalition air strikes,” warned Calvar, who has led France’s internal intelligence agency, DGSI, for the past four years. They will try to hit as soon as possible, and achieve the greatest possible impact,” Calvar predicted, explaining “This will be a new form of attack, characterized by placing explosive devices in places where there are large crowds and repeating this type of action to create a climate of maximum panic.” A successful attack would serve as a recruiting tool among French-speaking Muslims, and allow Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) [...]