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France is doing all it can to prevent terrorist attacks but there will be more of them, Prime Minister Manuel Valls said on Wednesday following this week's murder of a policeman and his wife by a Frenchman who pledged allegiance to Islamic State.

Calling it a nonstop battle, Valls says 15 attacks have foiled since 2013

French President Franois Hollande, left, and Prime Minister Manuel Valls walk together following a crisis meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris on Tuesday following the attacks on two police employees at their home. (Philippe Wojazer/Reuters)

France is doing all it can to prevent terrorist attacks but there will be more of them, Prime Minister Manuel Valls said on Wednesday following this week's murder of a policeman and his wife by a Frenchman who pledged allegiance to Islamic State.

Valls said the intelligence and police services had foiled 15 attacks since 2013 and were 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.

"More innocents will lose their lives," he said.

Police officers patrol a security perimeter Tuesday near a house in Magnanville, near Paris, where a French police officer and his domestic partner were killed by an assailant allegedly claimed as an ISIS fighter.EPA/CHRISTOPHE PETIT TESSON (Christophe Petit Tesson/EPA)

A memorial ceremony is planned Wednesday in Manganville for Jean-Baptiste Savaing, the 42-year-old police commander who was stabbed outside his suburban house Monday night, and his 36-year-old female companion, a police administrator whose name has not been released.

President Franois Hollande is joining a moment of silence at the Interior Ministry on Wednesday.

Attacker Larossi Abballa, who had a past terrorist conviction, recorded a video during the attack before being killed in a police raid.

With files from The Associated Press