Mosque shooter a troubled youth, doesn’t deserve exemplary sentence: defence
QUEBEC — Alexandre Bissonnette, who murdered six men in a Quebec City mosque in January 2017, is a fragile narcissist, a man unable to overcome the hardships he suffered in his youth, his lawyer argued Monday during his sentencing hearing.
Charles-Olivier Gosselin asked the judge to consider the “global portrait” of the killer before handing down a sentence.
Bissonnette, 28, is facing the prospect of being given the most severe prison term ever imposed in Canada.
He pleaded guilty earlier this year to six charges of first-degree murder and six of attempted murder.