Groups of terrorists are said to have left Syria, intending to hit targets in France and Belgium

BRUSSELS, June 15 (UPI) — Police in Belgium and France were warned Wednesday of imminent attacks by Syrian terrorists, a Brussels newspaper said, citing a Belgian counter-terrorism unit.

The message from the federal counter-terrorism agency Ocam, sent to local police and published in Brussels’ French-language newspaper Derniere Heure, read in part: “Combatants are thought to have left Syria around a week and a half ago to reach Europe via Turkey and Greece by boat without passports. These people are thought to have split into two groups — one for Belgium, the other for France, in order to commit terror attacks in groups of two. According to information collected, these people are thought to already be in possession of the necessary weaponry and their attack is imminent.”

The newspaper also said Mohamed Abrini, arrested after the March attacks on Brussels’ airport and a train station in which 32 people died, attempted to smuggle a note from his jail cell. The note, intercepted within the jail, read, “Something is moving in France.”  MORE