We've reached a pivotal point in the Alexandre Bissonnette police interrogation video at his sentencing hearing.
“Why did you chose that place?” the cop asks.
"I wanted to save people." Bissonnette answers.
From what?
"Terrorist attacks."
“Why did you chose that place?” the cop asks.
"I wanted to save people." Bissonnette answers.
From what?
"Terrorist attacks."
"Everything that happened, in Europe, in Canada, the United States. I told myself I could do something good," the killer says.
The officer asks Bissonnette if Donald Trump is in line with his values. The killer asks for clarification. Say on immigration? "On that, sure."
Was there a moment you started thinking about this? the officer asks.
The Parliament Hill shooting, Bissonnette replies. And the truck attack in Nice. "I didn't want them to come kill my family."
The Parliament Hill shooting, Bissonnette replies. And the truck attack in Nice. "I didn't want them to come kill my family."
On January 29, the day of the attack, came a trigger. Bissonnette tells his police interrogator. He was watching news coverage of Donald Trump's Muslim ban and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's subsequent welcoming message.
" “I was listening to TV and I learned that the Canadian government was going to take more refugees, you know, who couldn’t go to the United States, and they were coming here," Bissonnette says.
The killer continues: “I saw that and I like lost my mind. I don’t want us to become like Europe. I don’t want them to kill my parents, my family."
"I am not a terrorist," he insists.
He then asks to go to the bathroom.
He then asks to go to the bathroom.
