The man who killed six people in a Quebec City mosque last year was inspired to carry out the shooting when Canada announced it would continue to welcome refugees after US President Donald Trump implemented his travel ban in 2017. Alexandre Bissonnette, who has pleaded guilty to the January 2017 attack, told police during interrogation that had first started thinking about a potential attack following the 2014 attack on Parliament Hill, and that it became an obsession after the Nice, France attack in 2016 that left 86 dead. The final straw, he told interrogators, came on January 29, 2017, when Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tweeted a defiant message shortly after Mr Trump’s administration announced the travel ban, according to The Globe and Mail. Read more Canada mosque shooting leaves six dead after gunmen open fire “To those fleeing persecution, terror & war, Canadians will welcome you, regardless of your faith. Diversity is our strength #WelcomeToCanada,” Mr Trudeau tweeted. That was too much for Bissonnette. “I was watching 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 told interrogators. “I… Read full this story
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