Quebec Mosque Shooter Was Consumed by Refugees, Trump and Far Right
By DAN BILEFSKY MAY 5, 2018
QUEBEC When Alexandre Bissonnette learned of Justin Trudeaus now-famous tweet welcoming refugees to Canada, the waif-like 28-year-old political science student told police that he snapped.
Just hours after watching a television report suggesting Canada would accept immigrants spurned by President Trump, Mr. Bissonnette packed his Glock handgun and rifle, picked up a bottle of Smirnoff Ice, and trudged the snow-covered streets of Quebec to a nearby Islamic Cultural Center.
As 53 men were finishing evening prayers, he unloaded 48 rounds. Six people were killed several of them by shots to the head and 19 were injured, one paralyzed for life.
These details surfaced during a three-week sentencing hearing that ended late last month. Mr. Bissonnette faces up to 150 years in prison after pleading guilty to six counts of first-degree murder and is expected to be sentenced in the coming months.
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