Back Atac a Charleroi de 2016 Catalan Anschlag in Charleroi am 6. August 2016 German Ataque en Charleroi de 2016 Spanish حمله با چاقو به افسران پلیس شارلروا در ۲۰۱۶ Persian Attentat du 6 août 2016 à Charleroi French Machete-aanslag in Charleroi op 6 augustus 2016 Dutch
| 2016 stabbing of Charleroi police officers | |
|---|---|
| Part of Terrorism in Belgium and Islamic terrorism in Europe | |
 Tour bleue (Blue tower) by Jean Nouvel, the police headquarter of Charleroi. | |
 Location of Charleroi in Belgium | |
| Location | Charleroi, Belgium |
| Date | 6 August 2016 (UTC+02:00) |
Attack type | Knife attack |
| Weapons | Machete |
| Deaths | 1 (the perpetrator) |
| Injured | 2 |
| Perpetrator | Khaled Babbouri[1] |
| Motive | Islamic extremism |
On 6 August 2016, a man attacked two police officers with a machete in Charleroi, Belgium, before being shot dead by another police officer.[2]
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
BBC Algerianwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Machete attack on police may be terrorism". Bloomberg Politics. 6 August 2016.