Early reports are coming from Gava, just south of Barcelona, Spain, of an attack on two municipal police officers with an AK-47. At this point the motive of the attacker is unknown. Could be crime-related, could be terrorism:

https://twitter.com/BreakingNLive/status/882967157428166656

DIRECTO | Un gráfico con las tres ubicaciones del incidente en #Gavà https://t.co/YSIa4fVJw2 pic.twitter.com/bbaVDVik8j — EL PERIÓDICO Gavà (@GavaEP) July 6, 2017

#ÚLTIMAHORA Un hombre hiere a dos personas en el tanatorio de Gavà con un AK-47 y se da a la fuga https://t.co/U46QkOaJpv pic.twitter.com/atgEpewkuT — Antena3Noticias (@A3Noticias) July 6, 2017

Several local media reports that the suspect is of “North African appearance”:

Un hombre de aspecto magrebí dispara con un arma larga a dos agentes de la Policía municipal en #Gava, en #Barcelona. pic.twitter.com/Xp5AyVK3B1 — Javier Arias Borque (@ariasborque) July 6, 2017

#Spain #Gavà – He fled in the direction of #Sitges. Large manhunt underway, including helicopter. — Terror Events (@TerrorEvents) July 6, 2017

UPDATE: Suspect is under arrest. Police are saying it may not be terror related:

L'incident de Gavà no estaria relacionat amb acció terrorista segons les primeres informacions policials.Continua dispositiu x detenir autor — Mossos (@mossos) July 6, 2017

Según @mossos y @112 se descarta atentado terrorista en #Gavà #BCN

Agresor detenido

Pronta recuperación para los policías locales heridos pic.twitter.com/KZ9fe4lig4 — Emergencias Sevilla (@EmergenciasSev) July 6, 2017

This comes as a Belgian federal prosecutor said today that he fears an imminent attack after police raids failed to capture suspects who may now feel cornered:

Al-Arabiya reports:

Several suspects are still wanted within the framework of a terrorism case that led on Wednesday to a series of searches in Anderlecht, a neighbourhood of Brussels. “We can’t exclude a similar scenario as the one of March 22, 2016 Brussels attacks, but for the moment we have no element that goes into that sense of this hypothesis,” said the Prosecutor to Belga, the Belgian press agency. One day after the searches that led to the arrest of the brothers Saouti, Akim and Khalid, Eric Van der Sijpt the spokesman of the Federal Prosecutor said this morning “We are still looking for several suspects after the raids of last night. We fear that (the suspects) feel cornered after the searches. We fear that they have the same reaction as the March 22, 2016 (Date of the Brussels attacks)”.

Austrian authorities are also investigating a possible double homicide of an elderly couple by a Tunisian man inspired by ISIS:

ISIS terror hits Austria: Tunisian Muslim with connections to ISIS has killed 85-year-old women and her 87-year-old husband last Friday https://t.co/ITqqKO2pLJ — Islamism Map (@IslamismMap) July 6, 2017

The Express Tribune reports:

A Tunisian man suspected of brutally murdering an elderly couple in their Austrian home is believed to have acted with a militant motive, Interior Minister Wolfgang Sobotka said Wednesday. If confirmed, Friday’s killings in the northern city of Linz – in which an 85-year-old woman’s throat was slit and her 87-year-old husband was stabbed and beaten to death – would be the first militant attack in Austria, which had so far avoided the militant assaults seen elsewhere in Europe. The killings “clearly had an militant background”, Sobotka told a press conference in Vienna, adding that the 54-year-old suspect, who handed himself in to police, “is clearly a radicalised Muslim”.

French security services said they have stopped seven terror attacks already this year:

#France – June 2017: 15,000 people are "fiché S", due to radicalization. 18,000 are in the FSPRT database: MoI. Growing numbers! pic.twitter.com/JpT6D8zGDg — Terror Events (@TerrorEvents) July 3, 2017

I reported here at PJ Media earlier this week that the Swedish spy chief said publicly that the number of ISIS sympathizers there has jumped tenfold in recent years:

Swedish Spy Chief Admits ISIS Sympathizers Have Increased Tenfold to 2,000 https://t.co/8JidsQb3Pp via @pjmedia_com pic.twitter.com/X0Iw6cipyo — Patrick Poole (@pspoole) July 4, 2017

The UK also has its jihadist problems:

AC Rowley: 3 attacks in 10 weeks, 5 plots foiled since March & 18 thwarted since 2013, tempo of threat unprecedented https://t.co/2vRtlb9LBV pic.twitter.com/5n7YnZHmvS — Counter Terrorism Policing UK (@TerrorismPolice) June 13, 2017

There are 23,000 jihadist extremists living in Britain as potential terrorist attackers https://t.co/BPK0iSadFa pic.twitter.com/FStaPim0OG — The Times (@thetimes) May 27, 2017

But even those MI5 figures may be considerably understated:

Former UK Intel Official Says 23,000 Jihadists Admitted by MI5 'Is Probably the Tip of the Iceberg' https://t.co/lADZCE5gfH via @pjmedia_com pic.twitter.com/BMOyitakl6 — Patrick Poole (@pspoole) June 29, 2017

Back in April, I warned that we may be headed for another “Summer of Terror” in Western states:

Terror attacks in OECD countries have increased a whopping 900 percent since 2007:

#ThanksObama Global Terrorism Has Tripled Since 2011: Now At An All Time High & Up 900% in OECD https://t.co/EVgKJs9SKl via @pjmedia_com pic.twitter.com/0FzJILERd3 — Patrick Poole (@pspoole) June 1, 2017

Europe clearly has serious issues:

#TESAT17: 142 failed, foiled & completed terrorist attacks in the EU in 2016. 1002 arrests.

Download report here: https://t.co/mMjkmWo2Zc pic.twitter.com/IxTnjVnz8X — Europol (@Europol) June 15, 2017

Just a week before the one-year anniversary of the terror attack in Nice, France, that killed 86 and wounded 434 others, the “Summer of Terror” may be gearing up.