Trudeau's Trump Travel Ban Reaction Motivated Quebec City Mosque Mass Shooter
BY MICHAEL EDISON HAYDEN ON 4/13/18 AT 5:49 PM
Alexandre Bissonnette, the man who attacked a Quebec City mosque in January 2017, killing six and injuring 19 others, told police that he was reacting in part to news that related to President Donald Trumps travel ban, according to Canadian press reports.
In his confession played to the court during his testimony hearing Friday, Bissonnette told police during his interrogation that news coverage of Trumps travel ban, which initially sought to bar citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries from the United States and stirred widespread protest at that time, played a role in inspiring the attack. He also referenced a tweet by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that appeared to be issued in reaction to Trump, promising to bring more refugees into Canada.
Bissonette described feeling tortured by the idea of Muslims coming into his country.
I was watching TV and I learned that the Canadian government was going to take more refugees, you know, who couldnt go to the United States, and they were coming here, Bissonnette said. I saw that and I like lost my mind. I dont want us to become like Europe. I dont want them to kill my parents, my family.
I had to, I had to do something, I couldnt do nothing. It was something that tortured me.
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