The offender is said to have shouted “Allahu Akbar” (“God is great” in Arabic) during the assault outside the city’s main police station on Saturday.
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The assailant arrived outside the police station about 4:00pm (local time), Charleroi police spokesman David Quinaux told RTL-TVI.
The Verviers plotters, two of whom were shot dead, had parts of police uniforms in their possession, and were believed to have been planning to attack a police station.
“I condemn the attack in Charleroi with force”. “We are closely monitoring the situation”. The mayor said Belgian authorities are discussing whether security for police facilities and officers should be beefed up further, the Associated Press reported.
A machete-wielding man yelling “Allahu Akbar!”.
The other officer is reported to have only be lightly injured.
“But it seems once more to be an attack with a terrorist connotation”.
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Prosecutors said there was for now no link to the 22 March Brussels suicide bombings.
Numerous jihadists responsible for the Paris attack in November 2015, in which 130 people died, were also residing in Belgium.
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In 2005, Muriel Degauque from Charleroi, who was raised Catholic and was a Muslim convert radicalized by extremist Islamist ideology, died bombing a U.S. convoy in Iraq, making her the first European woman to launch a suicide attack.
