Imam counts accused as one of the victims of Quebec City mosque attack
Feb 3, 2017 | 12:00 PM
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QUEBEC — The man charged with murder in the six slayings at a Quebec City mosque is also a victim, an imam told the funeral Friday for three of the dead men.
Hassan Guillet said someone planted ideas in Alexandre Bissonnette’s head and that the accused didn’t wake up one day and randomly decide to commit the alleged crimes.
“Alexandre, before being a killer, he was a victim also,” Guillet told several thousand people packed into the Quebec City convention centre.
“Before shooting bullets into the heads of his victims, somebody planted ideas, more dangerous than the bullets, in his head. But we want Alexandre to be the last one who will have some criminal act like that.”
