Alexandre Bissonnette (born 1989) was a French Canadian student who killed 6 people and injured 15 in a shooting attack on a Muslim mosque in Quebec City, Canada on 29 January 2017. He was motivated by his far-right and pro-Donald Trump views.
Biography[]
Alexandre Bissonnette was born in Quebec City, Canada in 1989 to a family of French Canadians, and he was formerly a Royal Canadian Army cadet before attending Laval University from 2012 to 2017. Bissonette studied anthropology and political science at university, and he held far-right, anti-immigration, and pro-Israel views, often debating with classmate Jean-Michel Allard-Prus about his love for Donald Trump and far-right politics. At 7:55 PM on the night of 29 January 2017, Bissonnette entered the Islamic Culture Center of Quebec City with an AK-47 assault rifle just two days after Trump's Muslim ban was implemented in the United States, and he proceeded to kill 6 people and injure 15 as they were praying. He later called police to express regret for his crime, and he told them that he was armed; he was arrested and taken into police custody. He was sentenced to 40 years in prison on 8 February 2019, but it was reduced to 25 years in prison.