Canada - Six dead in shootings at Mosque in Quebec City, 29 Jan 2017

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Quebec City mosque shooter Alexandre Bissonnette appeals sentence of 40 years without parole

Mar 08, 2019

"...His lawyers dropped off the appeal at the Quebec City courthouse Friday.

In the appeal, lawyers Jean-Claude Gingras and Charles-Olivier Gosselin said the judge erred in applying a 40-year sentence before Bissonnette would be eligible for parole, calling it "illegal."

The appeal seeks to have the sentence reduced to a minimum of 25 years served before Bissonnette is eligible for parole.

Legal experts anticipated the decisions would likely be appealed all the way to the Supreme Court...."

Quebec City mosque shooter Alexandre Bissonnette appeals sentence of 40 years without parole | CBC News
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Community invited to honour victims of Quebec City mosque shooting
''Members of the Kingston community are invited to join the Islamic Society of Kingston for the event Prayers for Peace and Remembrance for the Victims of the Quebec City Mosque Shooting, to be held on Wednesday from 6:30-7:30 p.m. at the Islamic Centre on Sydenham Road.

Local faith leaders will be speaking at the event.

Wednesday will be the third anniversary of the shooting at the Islamic Cultural Centre of Quebec City, where a gunman killed six men just after evening prayers, injured 19 others and left one man a paraplegic.

Mona Rahman, education co-ordinator of the Islamic Society of Kingston, is also encouraging people to take part in the Green Square campaign to remember the victims and the families they left behind.

“Even though it was in one community, I think it affected the entire Muslim community across Canada,” Rahman said in an interview on Saturday.''
''The campaign chose a green fabric square because the carpet of the Quebec mosque was green.

“Our brothers’ blood was soaking into this green carpet, so it’s to remember the victims,” Rahman said.''

Mona Rahman of the Islamic Society of Kingston on Saturday. (Ian MacAlpine/The Whig-Standard) Submitted / Ian MacAlpine/Kingston Whig-Standard/Postmedia Network
“It’s the first time something like this has happened, and the fact someone can go into a place of worship … places of worship should be safe places, should be sanctuaries.”