Daughter of Quebec mosque victim expresses incomprehension at shooter’s actions
QUEBEC — Alexandre Bissonnette told police he’d feared for his family’s safety, but the daughter of one of his shooting victims at the Quebec City mosque says it was her family that paid the price for that fear.
Megda Belkacemi testified at Bissonnette’s sentencing hearing Wednesday her family hasn’t been the same since her father, Khaled Belkacemi, was gunned down on Jan. 29, 2017.
She referred to comments Bissonnette made to a police investigator the day after the shooting, when he claimed he wanted to protect his family against terrorist attacks.
But it was Belkacemi’s family, not Bissonnette’s, that was attacked.