Massive ISIS attacks are being prepared as cops distracted by lone wolves, judge claims

EVIL Islamic State fighters are carrying out “lone wolf” attacks as a ”smoke screen”for larger attacks planned across Europe, a judge has said.

DISTRACTION: The judge claims smaller attacks are a smoke screen for atrocities like Paris

France's former chief counter-terrorism judge said the smaller attacks distracted security agencies and allowed ISIS leaders to “calmly prepare” for the huge atrocities seen across Europe in recent months.

Marc Trevidic added: “It served to put all of our agencies on edge.

SMOKE SCREEN: Marc Trevidic has made the claims

Just like a smoke screen, it allowed them to calmly prepare.”

And a former head of the US Defence Intelligence Agency has added that the attack plans were in place for years rather than months.

CHILLING: Michael Flynn says the attacks were years in the planning

Michael Flynn said the sick jihadi group began planning the attacks long before they swept through large parts of Iraq and Syria in 2014.

He added: “This didn’t all of a sudden pop up in the last six months.

ALONE: Ine Van Wymersch says one fighter really was a lone wolf

"They have been contemplating external attacks ever since the group moved into Syria in 2012.”

Some of the lone wolf attacks seen in Europe have been carried out by individuals inspired by brutal terror organisations.

In 2014, Mehdi Nemmouche killed four people in one such attack in Belgium.

But Belgium’s deputy prosecutor, Ine Van Wymersch, said at the time he "probably acted alone".