By The Daily Wire (World News) | Created at 2026-08-12 22:01:11 | Updated at 2026-08-12 23:41:17
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Two police officers were injured in what’s being described as a terrorist incident involving a knife-wielding attacker who shouted “Allahu Akbar” at them.
The attack took place in the French city of Toulouse on Monday. Mayor Jean-Luc Moudenc said the officers were attacked with a bladed weapon while on duty on Rue d’Austerlitz in the city’s Wilson district. He said the attacker “made statements of a terrorist nature.”
“The two officers were taken to Rangueil University Hospital. The perpetrator was quickly arrested,” Moudenc said, without providing further details.
French media outlet CNews reported that the attacker shouted, “Allahu Akbar,” during the assault. According to that report, the man approached officers on duty before pulling out a knife. As the police personnel attempted to restrain him with batons, he allegedly produced three knives one after another and attacked them, injuring two personnel.
One of the officers was stabbed in the neck and required multiple stitches, according to the French-language media report. One of the personnel attacked was a woman and was stabbed three times, but her bulletproof vest stopped most of the blows, as per the report.
Authorities have not yet identified the attacker, disclosed a motive, or commented on any affiliation with a specific terrorist group.
The attack comes two weeks after a man was arrested in Paris for attacking three women with kitchen knives. Knife attacks have emerged as a common method used by radicals in Europe, as guns are strictly regulated while knives are more accessible.
Since the rise of the Islamic State in West Asia, France has suffered a string of attacks of varying scale. Major incidents include the coordinated bombings and mass shootings in Paris in 2015, the Nice truck attack in 2016, and the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris in 2015.
Other incidents include the beheading of teacher Samuel Paty in 2020 and the fatal stabbing of police commander Jean-Baptiste Salvaing and his partner, police administrator Jessica Schneider, in 2016.
The Toulouse attack emerges against a broader backdrop of concerns over the reach of Islamic extremist networks. A recent Senate hearing examined evidence of a Muslim Brotherhood-connected network in the United States built to support Hamas and expand influence through American institutions.
The hearing titled “Hidden in Plain Sight: Confronting the Muslim Brotherhood Network in America” — and led by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) — focused on how the network was constructed and the threats it poses.
A focal point of that hearing was the 2008 Holy Land Foundation case — the largest terrorism financing prosecution in American history. Five leaders of the foundation, then the largest Muslim charity in the United States, were convicted on 108 counts of providing material support to Hamas, money laundering, and tax fraud.
A 1991 document known as the Explanatory Memorandum, recovered by the FBI, described the Brotherhood’s work in North America as “a grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers.”
Lara Burns, the retired FBI special agent who led the Holy Land Foundation investigation, told the subcommittee that the Council on American-Islamic Relations was named as an unindicted coconspirator in the 2008 case and has never formally disavowed the Holy Land Foundation.
When asked whether evidence from that prosecution would still place the group on a list of organizations warranting further investigation, she answered, “It would.” She added that the underlying conspiracy still exists and the threat is growing.
Kyle Shideler, a counterterrorism analyst, told lawmakers that documents from the Holy Land Foundation case showed that at one time, one in every four American mosques was under the influence of the Hamas-linked North American Islamic Trust.
Cruz concluded the hearing by stating that the network’s institutional presence — through nonprofits, taxpayer-funded grants, campus organizing and legal advocacy — requires accountability “no matter how many tax exemptions, charitable registrations or civil rights letterheads they hide behind.”
He called on the Justice Department, the Treasury Department, and the FBI to act on the evidence presented.
In Toulouse, the two officers were both treated for non-life-threatening injuries after the Monday attack. Local authorities continue to investigate the precise circumstances and any broader connections while the suspect remains in custody.
